Duchy of Bouillon
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The Duchy of Bouillon was a small, semi-independent principality in the Ardennes region of Europe, historically ruled by the La Tour d’Auvergne family and later contested between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duchy of Bouillon canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5975426 — 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: Duchy of Bouillon Context triple: [Burgundian Circle, appliesToJurisdiction, Duchy of Bouillon]
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A.
Lordship of Oultrejordain
The Lordship of Oultrejordain was a major frontier lordship of the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem, controlling key fortresses and trade routes east of the Jordan River during the Crusader period.
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B.
Principality of Antioch
The Principality of Antioch was a medieval Crusader state established in the Levant, centered on the city of Antioch and serving as a key Latin Christian stronghold during the Crusades.
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C.
Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a medieval Crusader state established in the Levant after the First Crusade, serving as a key Christian stronghold and political center in the Holy Land.
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D.
Lordship of Overijssel
The Lordship of Overijssel was a historical territory in the Low Countries that formed part of the Habsburg-controlled Seventeen Provinces in what is now the eastern Netherlands.
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E.
County of Valois
The County of Valois was a historic feudal territory in northern France that gave its name and origin to the influential royal House of Valois.
- 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: Duchy of Bouillon Target entity description: The Duchy of Bouillon was a small, semi-independent principality in the Ardennes region of Europe, historically ruled by the La Tour d’Auvergne family and later contested between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
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A.
Lordship of Oultrejordain
The Lordship of Oultrejordain was a major frontier lordship of the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem, controlling key fortresses and trade routes east of the Jordan River during the Crusader period.
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B.
Principality of Antioch
The Principality of Antioch was a medieval Crusader state established in the Levant, centered on the city of Antioch and serving as a key Latin Christian stronghold during the Crusades.
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C.
Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a medieval Crusader state established in the Levant after the First Crusade, serving as a key Christian stronghold and political center in the Holy Land.
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D.
Lordship of Overijssel
The Lordship of Overijssel was a historical territory in the Low Countries that formed part of the Habsburg-controlled Seventeen Provinces in what is now the eastern Netherlands.
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E.
County of Valois
The County of Valois was a historic feudal territory in northern France that gave its name and origin to the influential royal House of Valois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
duchy
ⓘ
former state ⓘ |
| annexationDate | 1795 ⓘ |
| annexedBy | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Prince de Turenne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Bouillon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commonLanguage | French ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| currency | livre ⓘ |
| disputedBy |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1795 ⓘ |
| endTime |
1795
ⓘ
early 19th century ⓘ |
| event | French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | hereditary monarchy ⓘ |
| hasFortification | Bouillon Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Ardennes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatusAfterRevolution | mediatized territory claim ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ardennes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
present-day Belgium ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
French Revolution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Treaty of Nijmegen NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Lower Lorraine (historical region) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Lordship of Bouillon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| rulingFamily |
House of La Marck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of La Tour d’Auvergne NERFINISHED ⓘ House of La Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraguais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereign |
Charles Godefroy de La Tour d’Auvergne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne NERFINISHED ⓘ Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne NERFINISHED ⓘ Godfrey of Bouillon NERFINISHED ⓘ Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Léopold de La Tour d’Auvergne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
circa 988
ⓘ
late 10th century ⓘ |
| status |
imperial fief
ⓘ
semi-independent state ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | control of Meuse valley routes ⓘ |
| successor |
Department of Sambre-et-Meuse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
French First Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCreatedFor | House of La Tour d’Auvergne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| todayPartOf |
Luxembourg Province (Belgium)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wallonia 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: Duchy of Bouillon Description of subject: The Duchy of Bouillon was a small, semi-independent principality in the Ardennes region of Europe, historically ruled by the La Tour d’Auvergne family and later contested between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.