Eadgifu of Wessex
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Eadgifu of Wessex was a 10th-century English princess of the House of Wessex who became Queen of West Francia as the third wife of King Charles the Simple.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eadgifu of Wessex canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7718677 — 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: Eadgifu of Wessex Context triple: [Æthelstan Atheling, sibling, Eadgifu of Wessex]
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Eadgifu of Kent
Eadgifu of Kent was a 10th-century English queen consort and influential royal matriarch, noted for her substantial landholdings and political influence during and after the reign of her husband, King Edward the Elder.
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Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury was a 10th-century English queen consort and later revered saint, known primarily as the wife of King Edmund I and mother of Kings Eadwig and Edgar the Peaceful.
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Ælfthryth of Wessex
Ælfthryth of Wessex was a 9th-century English princess, the daughter of King Alfred the Great, who became queen consort of Mercia through her marriage to Count Baldwin II of Flanders.
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Æthelgifu
Æthelgifu was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman known primarily as a member of the family of the chronicler and ealdorman Æthelweard.
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Edith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex was an 11th-century English queen consort, daughter of the powerful Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and wife of King Edward the Confessor.
- 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: Eadgifu of Wessex Target entity description: Eadgifu of Wessex was a 10th-century English princess of the House of Wessex who became Queen of West Francia as the third wife of King Charles the Simple.
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A.
Eadgifu of Kent
Eadgifu of Kent was a 10th-century English queen consort and influential royal matriarch, noted for her substantial landholdings and political influence during and after the reign of her husband, King Edward the Elder.
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B.
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury was a 10th-century English queen consort and later revered saint, known primarily as the wife of King Edmund I and mother of Kings Eadwig and Edgar the Peaceful.
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C.
Ælfthryth of Wessex
Ælfthryth of Wessex was a 9th-century English princess, the daughter of King Alfred the Great, who became queen consort of Mercia through her marriage to Count Baldwin II of Flanders.
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Æthelgifu
Æthelgifu was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman known primarily as a member of the family of the chronicler and ealdorman Æthelweard.
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E.
Edith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex was an 11th-century English queen consort, daughter of the powerful Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and wife of King Edward the Confessor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English princess
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historical figure ⓘ member of royalty ⓘ queen consort ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anglo-Saxon England
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of the West Franks NERFINISHED ⓘ West Francia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Louis IV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childDynasty | Carolingian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childTitle | King of West Francia ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext | 10th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dynasticConnection | Carolingian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Early Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Edward the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherDynasty | House of Wessex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherTitle | King of the Anglo-Saxons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | early 10th century ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Old English
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Old French ⓘ |
| marriageOrder | third wife of Charles the Simple ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Wessex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Ælfflæd of Damerham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Wessex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being mother of Louis IV of France
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linking the royal houses of Wessex and West Francia ⓘ marriage to Charles the Simple ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Queen of West Francia ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
England
NERFINISHED
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West Francia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Alfred the Great
NERFINISHED
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Æthelstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| royalHouseConnection | House of Wessex–Carolingian alliance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles the Simple
NERFINISHED
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Louis IV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | King of West Francia ⓘ |
| title |
Queen of West Francia
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Queen of the West Franks ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eadgifu of Wessex Description of subject: Eadgifu of Wessex was a 10th-century English princess of the House of Wessex who became Queen of West Francia as the third wife of King Charles the Simple.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.