William I
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William I was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, reigning from 1815 to 1840 and playing a key role in shaping the modern Dutch state.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King William II | 1 |
| William I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486608 — 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 I Context triple: [William I of the Netherlands, regnalName, William I]
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A.
William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror was the 11th-century Duke of Normandy who became the first Norman king of England after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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B.
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king of England whose pious reign and later canonization made him one of the last and most revered pre-Norman English monarchs.
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C.
Henry II of England
Henry II of England was a 12th-century Angevin king who restored royal authority after civil war, expanded his realms across much of France, and laid foundations for the English common law system.
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D.
Christian Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Christian Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a short-lived German prince of the House of Welf, born to Sophia of the Palatinate and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
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E.
William I of Orange
William I of Orange, also known as William the Silent, was the 16th-century Dutch nobleman who led the revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the independent Dutch Republic.
- 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 I Target entity description: William I was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, reigning from 1815 to 1840 and playing a key role in shaping the modern Dutch state.
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A.
William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror was the 11th-century Duke of Normandy who became the first Norman king of England after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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B.
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king of England whose pious reign and later canonization made him one of the last and most revered pre-Norman English monarchs.
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C.
Henry II of England
Henry II of England was a 12th-century Angevin king who restored royal authority after civil war, expanded his realms across much of France, and laid foundations for the English common law system.
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D.
Christian Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Christian Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a short-lived German prince of the House of Welf, born to Sophia of the Palatinate and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
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E.
William I of Orange
William I of Orange, also known as William the Silent, was the 16th-century Dutch nobleman who led the revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the independent Dutch Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William I Description of subject: William I was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, reigning from 1815 to 1840 and playing a key role in shaping the modern Dutch state.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King William II