Anna of East Anglia
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Anna of East Anglia was a 7th-century Christian king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, remembered for his piety, his saintly daughters, and his death in battle against the pagan Mercians.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anna of East Anglia canonical | 5 |
| Anna (in Geoffrey of Monmouth-derived tradition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4030543 — 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: Anna of East Anglia Context triple: [Kingdom of the East Angles, ruler, Anna of East Anglia]
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A.
Edith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex was an 11th-century English queen consort, daughter of the powerful Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and wife of King Edward the Confessor.
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B.
Eadgyth of England
Eadgyth of England was a 10th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward the Elder, who became Queen consort of East Francia through her marriage to Otto I, later Holy Roman Emperor.
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C.
Ælfthryth of Wessex
Ælfthryth of Wessex was a 9th-century English princess, the daughter of King Alfred the Great, who became queen consort of Mercia through her marriage to Count Baldwin II of Flanders.
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D.
Bertha of Kent
Bertha of Kent was a Frankish princess and early medieval queen consort of Kent who played a key role in the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England by supporting Augustine of Canterbury’s mission.
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E.
Gytha of Wessex
Gytha of Wessex was an English princess of the House of Godwin who became a Kievan Rus' grand princess through her marriage to Grand Prince Vladimir II Monomakh.
- 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: Anna of East Anglia Target entity description: Anna of East Anglia was a 7th-century Christian king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, remembered for his piety, his saintly daughters, and his death in battle against the pagan Mercians.
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A.
Edith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex was an 11th-century English queen consort, daughter of the powerful Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and wife of King Edward the Confessor.
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B.
Eadgyth of England
Eadgyth of England was a 10th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward the Elder, who became Queen consort of East Francia through her marriage to Otto I, later Holy Roman Emperor.
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C.
Ælfthryth of Wessex
Ælfthryth of Wessex was a 9th-century English princess, the daughter of King Alfred the Great, who became queen consort of Mercia through her marriage to Count Baldwin II of Flanders.
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D.
Bertha of Kent
Bertha of Kent was a Frankish princess and early medieval queen consort of Kent who played a key role in the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England by supporting Augustine of Canterbury’s mission.
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E.
Gytha of Wessex
Gytha of Wessex was an English princess of the House of Godwin who became a Kievan Rus' grand princess through her marriage to Grand Prince Vladimir II Monomakh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Anna of East Anglia Description of subject: Anna of East Anglia was a 7th-century Christian king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, remembered for his piety, his saintly daughters, and his death in battle against the pagan Mercians.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anna (in Geoffrey of Monmouth-derived tradition)