Willem van Nassau
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Willem van Nassau is the birth name of William I of Orange, the 16th-century nobleman who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the Netherlands.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William the Silent | 6 |
| Willem van Nassau canonical | 2 |
| Louis of Nassau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486557 — 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: Willem van Nassau Context triple: [William I of Orange, birthName, Willem van Nassau]
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Maurice of Nassau
Maurice of Nassau was a Dutch military leader and stadtholder who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt against Spain and in shaping the Dutch Republic’s early success.
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B.
Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German-Dutch nobleman and military commander best known for his enlightened but expansionist rule over Dutch Brazil and his patronage of science and the arts.
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William II, Prince of Orange
William II, Prince of Orange was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who played a key role in the later stages of the Eighty Years' War and in the politics of the Dutch Republic.
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D.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who significantly strengthened the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
Duke of Brabant
The Duke of Brabant is the traditional title reserved for the heir apparent to the Belgian throne.
- 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: Willem van Nassau Target entity description: Willem van Nassau is the birth name of William I of Orange, the 16th-century nobleman who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the Netherlands.
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A.
Maurice of Nassau
Maurice of Nassau was a Dutch military leader and stadtholder who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt against Spain and in shaping the Dutch Republic’s early success.
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B.
Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German-Dutch nobleman and military commander best known for his enlightened but expansionist rule over Dutch Brazil and his patronage of science and the arts.
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C.
William II, Prince of Orange
William II, Prince of Orange was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who played a key role in the later stages of the Eighty Years' War and in the politics of the Dutch Republic.
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D.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who significantly strengthened the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
Duke of Brabant
The Duke of Brabant is the traditional title reserved for the heir apparent to the Belgian throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Willem van Nassau Description of subject: Willem van Nassau is the birth name of William I of Orange, the 16th-century nobleman who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the Netherlands.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William the Silent
this entity surface form:
William the Silent
this entity surface form:
William the Silent
this entity surface form:
William the Silent
this entity surface form:
William the Silent
this entity surface form:
William the Silent
this entity surface form:
Louis of Nassau