Matilda of Anjou
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Matilda of Anjou was a 12th-century noblewoman, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou, whose brief marriage to William Adelin linked the Angevin and English royal houses before his death in the White Ship disaster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matilda of Anjou canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4953796 — 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: Matilda of Anjou Context triple: [William Adelin, spouse, Matilda of Anjou]
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A.
Matilda of Huntingdon
Matilda of Huntingdon was a medieval English noblewoman and countess whose lineage and marriages connected several prominent aristocratic families in 12th-century Britain.
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B.
Matilda I of Boulogne
Matilda I of Boulogne was a 12th-century noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Stephen and played a key political and military role during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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C.
Blanche of England
Blanche of England was an English princess, daughter of King Henry IV, who became Electress Palatine through her marriage to Louis III, Elector Palatine.
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D.
Beatrice of England
Beatrice of England was a 13th-century English princess and daughter of King Henry III who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to John II, Duke of Brittany.
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E.
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda was a 12th-century claimant to the English throne whose dynastic struggle with Stephen of Blois, known as The Anarchy, paved the way for the eventual rule of her son, King Henry II, and the Plantagenet dynasty.
- 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: Matilda of Anjou Target entity description: Matilda of Anjou was a 12th-century noblewoman, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou, whose brief marriage to William Adelin linked the Angevin and English royal houses before his death in the White Ship disaster.
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A.
Matilda of Huntingdon
Matilda of Huntingdon was a medieval English noblewoman and countess whose lineage and marriages connected several prominent aristocratic families in 12th-century Britain.
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B.
Matilda I of Boulogne
Matilda I of Boulogne was a 12th-century noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Stephen and played a key political and military role during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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C.
Blanche of England
Blanche of England was an English princess, daughter of King Henry IV, who became Electress Palatine through her marriage to Louis III, Elector Palatine.
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D.
Beatrice of England
Beatrice of England was a 13th-century English princess and daughter of King Henry III who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to John II, Duke of Brittany.
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E.
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda was a 12th-century claimant to the English throne whose dynastic struggle with Stephen of Blois, known as The Anarchy, paved the way for the eventual rule of her son, King Henry II, and the Plantagenet dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century French noblewoman
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Countess of Anjou ⓘ medieval noble ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Angevin–Norman alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | circa 1110 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | County of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1154 ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| event | White Ship disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Fulk V of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Old French ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1120 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1119 ⓘ |
| monasticLife | became a nun after widowhood ⓘ |
| mother | Ermengarde of Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dynastic link between Anjou and England
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marriage to William Adelin ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Fontevraud Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSignificance | marriage linked Angevin and English royal houses ⓘ |
| relative | Henry II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeRelation | aunt of Henry II of England ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Elias II, Count of Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | William Adelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseDeathCause | White Ship disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseDeathDate | 1120-11-25 ⓘ |
| spouseFather | Henry I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseMother | Matilda of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseTitle |
Duke of Normandy
NERFINISHED
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heir apparent to the English throne ⓘ |
| title | Countess of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tookReligiousVows | yes ⓘ |
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: Matilda of Anjou Description of subject: Matilda of Anjou was a 12th-century noblewoman, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou, whose brief marriage to William Adelin linked the Angevin and English royal houses before his death in the White Ship disaster.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.