King of France
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The King of France was the hereditary monarch who ruled the Kingdom of France, embodying its supreme political and symbolic authority until the abolition of the monarchy.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King of France canonical | 121 |
| King of West Francia | 2 |
| King of France (disputed) | 1 |
| King of France (for French fiefs) | 1 |
| King of France (in temporal matters) | 1 |
| King of France (legitimist-claimed, as Jacques I) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3909812 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King of France Context triple: [Francis I of France, title, King of France]
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A.
King of France and Navarre
King of France and Navarre was the formal royal title borne by French monarchs from the early 17th century until the French Revolution, signifying their sovereignty over both the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Navarre.
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B.
Regent of France
The Regent of France was the temporary sovereign authority appointed to govern the kingdom on behalf of an underage or incapacitated French monarch.
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Philip II of France
Philip II of France was the Capetian king who greatly expanded French royal power and territory in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, notably at the expense of the English crown.
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D.
Philip VI of France
Philip VI of France was the first king of the Valois dynasty, whose disputed claim to the French throne helped trigger the Hundred Years' War with England.
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E.
Charles IV of France
Charles IV of France was the last Capetian king of France, whose death in 1328 ended the direct male line of the House of Capet and helped trigger the Hundred Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King of France Target entity description: The King of France was the hereditary monarch who ruled the Kingdom of France, embodying its supreme political and symbolic authority until the abolition of the monarchy.
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A.
King of France and Navarre
King of France and Navarre was the formal royal title borne by French monarchs from the early 17th century until the French Revolution, signifying their sovereignty over both the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Navarre.
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B.
Regent of France
The Regent of France was the temporary sovereign authority appointed to govern the kingdom on behalf of an underage or incapacitated French monarch.
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C.
Philip II of France
Philip II of France was the Capetian king who greatly expanded French royal power and territory in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, notably at the expense of the English crown.
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D.
Philip VI of France
Philip VI of France was the first king of the Valois dynasty, whose disputed claim to the French throne helped trigger the Hundred Years' War with England.
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E.
Charles IV of France
Charles IV of France was the last Capetian king of France, whose death in 1328 ended the direct male line of the House of Capet and helped trigger the Hundred Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: King of France Description of subject: The King of France was the hereditary monarch who ruled the Kingdom of France, embodying its supreme political and symbolic authority until the abolition of the monarchy.
Referenced by (127)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King of West Francia
subject surface form:
Secretary of State of the Navy (France)
subject surface form:
Franc-Lyonnais
this entity surface form:
King of France (for French fiefs)
subject surface form:
Henry III of France
subject surface form:
Lords of Languedoc