Upper Burgundy
E428008
Upper Burgundy was a medieval kingdom in what is now eastern France and western Switzerland, later united with Lower Burgundy to form the Kingdom of Arles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Upper Burgundy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4283666 — 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: Upper Burgundy Context triple: [Lower Burgundy, mergedWith, Upper Burgundy]
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A.
Lower Burgundy
Lower Burgundy was a medieval kingdom in what is now southeastern France and surrounding regions, later incorporated into the Kingdom of Arles within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté is a historical region in eastern France bordering Switzerland, known for its mountainous Jura landscapes, distinctive cheeses like Comté, and a past marked by shifting control between France and the Habsburgs.
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C.
Mâconnais
Mâconnais is a wine-producing subregion in southern Burgundy, France, best known for its Chardonnay-based white wines.
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D.
Touraine
Touraine is a historic region in central France, famed for its Loire Valley châteaux, wine production, and role as a former royal heartland.
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E.
Côte Chalonnaise
Côte Chalonnaise is a wine-producing subregion of Burgundy in eastern France, known for its value-driven red and white wines primarily from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
- 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: Upper Burgundy Target entity description: Upper Burgundy was a medieval kingdom in what is now eastern France and western Switzerland, later united with Lower Burgundy to form the Kingdom of Arles.
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A.
Lower Burgundy
Lower Burgundy was a medieval kingdom in what is now southeastern France and surrounding regions, later incorporated into the Kingdom of Arles within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté is a historical region in eastern France bordering Switzerland, known for its mountainous Jura landscapes, distinctive cheeses like Comté, and a past marked by shifting control between France and the Habsburgs.
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C.
Mâconnais
Mâconnais is a wine-producing subregion in southern Burgundy, France, best known for its Chardonnay-based white wines.
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D.
Touraine
Touraine is a historic region in central France, famed for its Loire Valley châteaux, wine production, and role as a former royal heartland.
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E.
Côte Chalonnaise
Côte Chalonnaise is a wine-producing subregion of Burgundy in eastern France, known for its value-driven red and white wines primarily from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former monarchy
ⓘ
medieval kingdom ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Transjurane Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty |
Rudolf I of Upper Burgundy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
East Francia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ West Francia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital |
Arles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Maurice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| followedBy | Kingdom of Arles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedBy | partition of the Carolingian Empire ⓘ |
| governmentType | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRegion | Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegionNowIn |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | defunct state ⓘ |
| includedRegion |
Franche-Comté
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Transjurane Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ Valais NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Latin
ⓘ
Old French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Western Europe
ⓘ
eastern France ⓘ Western Switzerland ⓘ
surface form:
western Switzerland
|
| mergedInto | Kingdom of Arles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedWith | Lower Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Burgundian kingdoms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Roman Empire sphere of influence ⓘ historical region of Burgundy ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Carolingian Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle Francia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Latin Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| resultingEntity | Kingdom of Arles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rulingDynasty |
Bosonid dynasty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Welf dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorState | Kingdom of Arles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | High Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unitedWith | Lower Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Upper Burgundy Description of subject: Upper Burgundy was a medieval kingdom in what is now eastern France and western Switzerland, later united with Lower Burgundy to form the Kingdom of Arles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.