Matilda II of Boulogne
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Matilda II of Boulogne was a 13th-century French noblewoman who inherited the County of Boulogne and played a notable role in the regional politics of northern France.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne | 2 |
| Matilda II of Boulogne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6491572 — 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: Matilda II of Boulogne Context triple: [Countess of Boulogne, hasTitleHolder, Matilda II of Boulogne]
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Matilda I of Boulogne
Matilda I of Boulogne was a 12th-century noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Stephen and played a key political and military role during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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B.
Matilda of Anjou
Matilda of Anjou was a 12th-century noblewoman, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou, whose brief marriage to William Adelin linked the Angevin and English royal houses before his death in the White Ship disaster.
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C.
Matilda of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
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D.
Matilda of Normandy
Matilda of Normandy was a daughter of William the Conqueror and a Norman princess who became Countess of Boulogne through marriage.
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E.
Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
Marie I, Countess of Boulogne was a 12th-century English noblewoman and religious figure who inherited the County of Boulogne and later became a nun, noted as the daughter of King Stephen of England.
- 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: Matilda II of Boulogne Target entity description: Matilda II of Boulogne was a 13th-century French noblewoman who inherited the County of Boulogne and played a notable role in the regional politics of northern France.
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A.
Matilda I of Boulogne
Matilda I of Boulogne was a 12th-century noblewoman who became Queen of England as the wife of King Stephen and played a key political and military role during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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B.
Matilda of Anjou
Matilda of Anjou was a 12th-century noblewoman, daughter of Count Fulk V of Anjou, whose brief marriage to William Adelin linked the Angevin and English royal houses before his death in the White Ship disaster.
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C.
Matilda of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
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D.
Matilda of Normandy
Matilda of Normandy was a daughter of William the Conqueror and a Norman princess who became Countess of Boulogne through marriage.
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E.
Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
Marie I, Countess of Boulogne was a 12th-century English noblewoman and religious figure who inherited the County of Boulogne and later became a nun, noted as the daughter of King Stephen of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
13th-century French woman
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French noble ⓘ medieval person ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 13th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| governed | County of Boulogne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | French ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| inheritance | County of Boulogne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Old French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Countess of Boulogne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inheriting the County of Boulogne
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role in regional politics of northern France ⓘ |
| partOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| politicalRole | regional power-broker in northern France ⓘ |
| positionHeld | ruler of the County of Boulogne ⓘ |
| realm | County of Boulogne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence | northern France ⓘ |
| residence | Boulogne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| successionType | hereditary succession ⓘ |
| title | Countess of Boulogne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Matilda II of Boulogne Description of subject: Matilda II of Boulogne was a 13th-century French noblewoman who inherited the County of Boulogne and played a notable role in the regional politics of northern France.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne
this entity surface form:
Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne