James II of England
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James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
All labels observed (24)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T25967 — 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: James II of England Context triple: [Anne, Queen of Great Britain, father, James II of England]
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Charles I of England
Charles I of England was the early 17th-century Stuart king whose contentious rule and conflicts with Parliament led to the English Civil War and his eventual execution.
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George II of Great Britain
George II of Great Britain was an 18th-century British king from the House of Hanover whose reign saw significant military conflicts, the expansion of British power, and the development of the modern parliamentary system.
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George I of Great Britain
George I of Great Britain was the early 18th-century Hanoverian ruler who became the first king of a newly unified Great Britain, inaugurating the Georgian era and the modern system of parliamentary monarchy.
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George III of the United Kingdom
George III of the United Kingdom was the long-reigning 18th–19th century British king best known for overseeing the loss of the American colonies and for periods of mental illness that led to his son serving as regent.
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France was the long-reigning “Sun King” who centralized absolute monarchy, expanded French influence in Europe, and made his court at Versailles a model of royal splendor.
- 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: James II of England Target entity description: James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
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Charles I of England
Charles I of England was the early 17th-century Stuart king whose contentious rule and conflicts with Parliament led to the English Civil War and his eventual execution.
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B.
George II of Great Britain
George II of Great Britain was an 18th-century British king from the House of Hanover whose reign saw significant military conflicts, the expansion of British power, and the development of the modern parliamentary system.
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George I of Great Britain
George I of Great Britain was the early 18th-century Hanoverian ruler who became the first king of a newly unified Great Britain, inaugurating the Georgian era and the modern system of parliamentary monarchy.
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George III of the United Kingdom
George III of the United Kingdom was the long-reigning 18th–19th century British king best known for overseeing the loss of the American colonies and for periods of mental illness that led to his son serving as regent.
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Edward
Edward is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with kings of England and notable figures such as U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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Statements (69)
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: James II of England Description of subject: James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
Referenced by (256)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James II of Ireland
subject surface form:
Mary II of England
subject surface form:
Mary II of England
subject surface form:
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
subject surface form:
Anne of Great Britain
this entity surface form:
James II of England and VII of Scotland
this entity surface form:
James II of England (exiled court)
this entity surface form:
King James II of England
subject surface form:
Anne Hyde
this entity surface form:
King James II of England
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York (later King James II of England)
this entity surface form:
Prince James, later James II and VII
this entity surface form:
James II of England (by marriage through her daughter)
subject surface form:
Anne Hyde