Gaston II of Foix
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Gaston II of Foix was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled the County of Foix and was known for his military and political role in the conflicts of southern France.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gaston II of Foix canonical | 2 |
| Gaston II, Count of Foix | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7154150 — 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: Gaston II of Foix Context triple: [Counts of Foix, notableMember, Gaston II of Foix]
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A.
Gaston I of Foix
Gaston I of Foix was a medieval French nobleman who ruled the County of Foix in the early 11th century and helped establish the prominence of the House of Foix in southwestern France.
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B.
Gaston III, Count of Foix
Gaston III, Count of Foix was a powerful 14th-century French nobleman and military leader renowned for his role in the Hundred Years’ War and his cultured, chivalric court.
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C.
Roger I of Foix
Roger I of Foix was a medieval French nobleman who served as an early count of the House of Foix in the Pyrenean region.
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D.
Roger Bernard II of Foix
Roger Bernard II of Foix was a 13th-century French nobleman and Count of Foix known for his involvement in the politics and conflicts of southern France during and after the Albigensian Crusade.
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E.
Roger Bernard III of Foix
Roger Bernard III of Foix was a 13th-century Count of Foix known for his involvement in the politics and conflicts of southern France during the later stages of the Albigensian Crusade and its aftermath.
- 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: Gaston II of Foix Target entity description: Gaston II of Foix was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled the County of Foix and was known for his military and political role in the conflicts of southern France.
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A.
Gaston I of Foix
Gaston I of Foix was a medieval French nobleman who ruled the County of Foix in the early 11th century and helped establish the prominence of the House of Foix in southwestern France.
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B.
Gaston III, Count of Foix
Gaston III, Count of Foix was a powerful 14th-century French nobleman and military leader renowned for his role in the Hundred Years’ War and his cultured, chivalric court.
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C.
Roger I of Foix
Roger I of Foix was a medieval French nobleman who served as an early count of the House of Foix in the Pyrenean region.
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D.
Roger Bernard II of Foix
Roger Bernard II of Foix was a 13th-century French nobleman and Count of Foix known for his involvement in the politics and conflicts of southern France during and after the Albigensian Crusade.
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E.
Roger Bernard III of Foix
Roger Bernard III of Foix was a 13th-century Count of Foix known for his involvement in the politics and conflicts of southern France during the later stages of the Albigensian Crusade and its aftermath.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Count
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French nobleman ⓘ medieval ruler ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | Languedoc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aristocraticRank | count ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 13th century ⓘ |
| conflictParticipation | conflicts of southern France ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | de Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | County of Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
military leadership
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participation in regional conflicts in southern France ⓘ political influence in southern France ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Old French
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Old Occitan ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Count of Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| placeOfRule | County of Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Count of Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | southern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| residence | Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| territory | County of Foix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | High 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: Gaston II of Foix Description of subject: Gaston II of Foix was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled the County of Foix and was known for his military and political role in the conflicts of southern France.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gaston II, Count of Foix