William FitzEmpress
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William FitzEmpress was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda, and elder brother of King Henry II of England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William FitzEmpress canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5500686 — 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: William FitzEmpress Context triple: [Geoffrey V Plantagenet, child, William FitzEmpress]
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A.
William fitzOsbern
William fitzOsbern was an 11th-century Norman nobleman and close companion of William the Conqueror who became a powerful lord in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest.
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B.
Ranulph
Ranulph is the given name of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the renowned British explorer and adventurer known for his polar expeditions and endurance feats.
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C.
Gordon de Blois
Gordon de Blois was the husband of pioneering American modernist architect Natalie de Blois.
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D.
Geoffrey V Plantagenet
Geoffrey V Plantagenet was a 12th-century French nobleman, husband of Empress Matilda and father of King Henry II of England, whose marriage helped lay the foundations of the Angevin Empire.
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E.
William fitz Duncan
William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
- 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: William FitzEmpress Target entity description: William FitzEmpress was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda, and elder brother of King Henry II of England.
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A.
William fitzOsbern
William fitzOsbern was an 11th-century Norman nobleman and close companion of William the Conqueror who became a powerful lord in England and Wales after the Norman Conquest.
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B.
Ranulph
Ranulph is the given name of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the renowned British explorer and adventurer known for his polar expeditions and endurance feats.
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C.
Gordon de Blois
Gordon de Blois was the husband of pioneering American modernist architect Natalie de Blois.
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D.
Geoffrey V Plantagenet
Geoffrey V Plantagenet was a 12th-century French nobleman, husband of Empress Matilda and father of King Henry II of England, whose marriage helped lay the foundations of the Angevin Empire.
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E.
William fitz Duncan
William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century nobleman
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Anglo-Norman nobleman ⓘ |
| aunt | Matilda of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Rouen Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Angevin Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Duchy of Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1136 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1164 ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzEmpress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Count ⓘ |
| house | House of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Anglo-Norman
NERFINISHED
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Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| maternalGrandfather | Henry I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalGrandmother | Matilda of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Empress Matilda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherTitle | Lady of the English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Plantagenet dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Count of Poitou
NERFINISHED
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Earl of Surrey (disputed) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being elder brother of Henry II of England
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role in early Angevin expansion in France ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
John, King of England
NERFINISHED
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Richard I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Angevin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfather | Fulk, King of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paternalGrandmother | Ermengarde of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Argentan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rouen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Count of Poitou
NERFINISHED
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Earl of Surrey (disputed) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| residence |
Anjou
NERFINISHED
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Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ Poitiers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
NERFINISHED
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Henry II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncle |
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
NERFINISHED
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William Adelin 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: William FitzEmpress Description of subject: William FitzEmpress was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Empress Matilda, and elder brother of King Henry II of England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.