Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg
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Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman from the House of Nassau, known as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a sister of William the Silent.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg canonical | 1 |
| Magdalene of Nassau-Dillenburg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3191394 — 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: Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg Context triple: [Juliana of Stolberg, motherOf, Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg]
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A.
Maria of Nassau
Maria of Nassau was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman, daughter of William the Silent and Anna van Egmond, who lived during the early years of the Dutch Revolt.
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B.
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels was a 17th-century German-born noblewoman who became a powerful political figure and cultural patron in the Dutch Republic as Princess consort of Orange.
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C.
Maria of Simmern
Maria of Simmern was a 16th-century German noblewoman and princess from the Palatine branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
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D.
Juliana of Stolberg
Juliana of Stolberg was a 16th-century German countess best known as the matriarch of the House of Orange-Nassau and the mother of William the Silent, leader of the Dutch Revolt.
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E.
Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst
Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German princess of the House of Ascania who became Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and matriarch of a line that included several prominent European royals.
- 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: Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg Target entity description: Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman from the House of Nassau, known as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a sister of William the Silent.
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A.
Maria of Nassau
Maria of Nassau was a 16th-century Dutch noblewoman, daughter of William the Silent and Anna van Egmond, who lived during the early years of the Dutch Revolt.
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B.
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels
Amalia of Solms-Braunfels was a 17th-century German-born noblewoman who became a powerful political figure and cultural patron in the Dutch Republic as Princess consort of Orange.
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C.
Maria of Simmern
Maria of Simmern was a 16th-century German noblewoman and princess from the Palatine branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
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D.
Juliana of Stolberg
Juliana of Stolberg was a 16th-century German countess best known as the matriarch of the House of Orange-Nassau and the mother of William the Silent, leader of the Dutch Revolt.
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E.
Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst
Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German princess of the House of Ascania who became Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and matriarch of a line that included several prominent European royals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German noble
ⓘ
member of the House of Nassau ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthTerritory |
County of Nassau-Dillenburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | of Nassau-Dillenburg ⓘ |
| father | William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Magdalena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Nassau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| marriagePlace | Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Juliana of Stolberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Nassau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Countess of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | sister of William the Silent ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Juliana of Stolberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ William the Silent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Reformation-era German nobility ⓘ |
| religion |
Calvinism
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence |
Dillenburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Weikersheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Adolf of Nassau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Catherine of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlotte of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunther of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Juliana of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis of Nassau NERFINISHED ⓘ William the Silent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg Description of subject: Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman from the House of Nassau, known as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a sister of William the Silent.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Juliana of Stolberg
this entity surface form:
Magdalene of Nassau-Dillenburg