Henry the Proud
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Henry the Proud was a powerful 12th-century German duke of Bavaria and Saxony and a leading member of the Welf dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry the Proud canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5180145 — 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: Henry the Proud Context triple: [Henry the Lion, father, Henry the Proud]
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A.
Henry the Fowler
Henry the Fowler was a 10th-century German king who consolidated East Francia and laid the foundations for the medieval German state and the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Coloman of Hungary
Coloman of Hungary was a medieval king of Hungary and Croatia, noted for his legal reforms, promotion of literacy, and relatively tolerant rule in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
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C.
Joachim II Hector
Joachim II Hector was a 16th-century Hohenzollern prince who served as Elector of Brandenburg and played a key role in the political and religious affairs of the Holy Roman Empire during the Reformation.
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D.
Hermann Billung
Hermann Billung was a 10th-century Saxon nobleman and military leader who served as margrave and de facto ruler of the Duchy of Saxony in the early Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
Mojmir II
Mojmir II was the last known ruler of Great Moravia, presiding over the Slavic state during its decline in the early 10th century.
- 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: Henry the Proud Target entity description: Henry the Proud was a powerful 12th-century German duke of Bavaria and Saxony and a leading member of the Welf dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire.
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A.
Henry the Fowler
Henry the Fowler was a 10th-century German king who consolidated East Francia and laid the foundations for the medieval German state and the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Coloman of Hungary
Coloman of Hungary was a medieval king of Hungary and Croatia, noted for his legal reforms, promotion of literacy, and relatively tolerant rule in the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
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C.
Joachim II Hector
Joachim II Hector was a 16th-century Hohenzollern prince who served as Elector of Brandenburg and played a key role in the political and religious affairs of the Holy Roman Empire during the Reformation.
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D.
Hermann Billung
Hermann Billung was a 10th-century Saxon nobleman and military leader who served as margrave and de facto ruler of the Duchy of Saxony in the early Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
Mojmir II
Mojmir II was the last known ruler of Great Moravia, presiding over the Slavic state during its decline in the early 10th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Welf dynasty member
ⓘ
duke ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activeIn | 12th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brunswick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Weingarten Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1108 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Weingarten Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfLossOfDuchies | conflict with King Conrad III ⓘ |
| child | Henry the Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | dynastic conflict with Hohenstaufen ⓘ |
| country | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 20 October 1139 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Quedlinburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| father | Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldTerritory |
Duchy of Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duchy of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ Margraviate of Tuscany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Middle High German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Welf dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Wulfhilde of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherInLaw | Richenza of Northeim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Welf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| notableFor |
accumulation of multiple duchies in the Holy Roman Empire
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rivalry with the Hohenstaufen dynasty ⓘ |
| opponent | Conrad III of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalRole | leading prince-elector candidate for the German kingship ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Duke of Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lothair III as Duke of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Gertrude of Süpplingenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeeded |
Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lothair III as Duke of Saxony ⓘ |
| successor |
Albert the Bear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Conrad III of Germany (in control of Bavaria) NERFINISHED ⓘ Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Duke of Bavaria
NERFINISHED
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Duke of Bavaria (as Henry X) NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke of Saxony (as Henry II) ⓘ Margrave of Tuscany ⓘ |
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: Henry the Proud Description of subject: Henry the Proud was a powerful 12th-century German duke of Bavaria and Saxony and a leading member of the Welf dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.