Humbert of Hauteville
E503303
Humbert of Hauteville was a lesser-known member of the prominent Norman Hauteville family, active during the 11th-century Norman expansion in southern Italy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Humbert of Hauteville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5097895 — 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: Humbert of Hauteville Context triple: [Fressenda, motherOf, Humbert of Hauteville]
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A.
Humphrey of Hauteville
Humphrey of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman who led the expansion of Norman power in southern Italy as a key member of the influential Hauteville family.
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B.
Geoffrey of Hauteville
Geoffrey of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the 11th century, a member of the influential Hauteville family that played a key role in the Norman conquest and rule of southern Italy and Sicily.
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C.
William of Hauteville
William of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman adventurer and military leader who played a key role in the Norman conquest of southern Italy.
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D.
Mauger of Hauteville
Mauger of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the influential Hauteville family, known primarily as a son of Roger I of Sicily.
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E.
Jordan of Hauteville
Jordan of Hauteville was the illegitimate eldest son and designated heir of Roger I of Sicily, known for his military role in the Norman conquest of southern Italy before his early death.
- 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: Humbert of Hauteville Target entity description: Humbert of Hauteville was a lesser-known member of the prominent Norman Hauteville family, active during the 11th-century Norman expansion in southern Italy.
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A.
Humphrey of Hauteville
Humphrey of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman who led the expansion of Norman power in southern Italy as a key member of the influential Hauteville family.
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B.
Geoffrey of Hauteville
Geoffrey of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the 11th century, a member of the influential Hauteville family that played a key role in the Norman conquest and rule of southern Italy and Sicily.
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C.
William of Hauteville
William of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman adventurer and military leader who played a key role in the Norman conquest of southern Italy.
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D.
Mauger of Hauteville
Mauger of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the influential Hauteville family, known primarily as a son of Roger I of Sicily.
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E.
Jordan of Hauteville
Jordan of Hauteville was the illegitimate eldest son and designated heir of Roger I of Sicily, known for his military role in the Norman conquest of southern Italy before his early death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medieval person
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member of the Hauteville family ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 11th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Duchy of Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hauteville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Norman conquest of southern Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | association with Norman military and political activities in Italy ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment | Old Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hauteville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Hauteville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a lesser-known member of the Hauteville family ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Norman expansion in southern Italy ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | southern Italy ⓘ |
| region | Mezzogiorno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Hauteville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Humbert of Hauteville Description of subject: Humbert of Hauteville was a lesser-known member of the prominent Norman Hauteville family, active during the 11th-century Norman expansion in southern Italy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.