Frederick William II of Prussia
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Frederick William II of Prussia was King of Prussia from 1786 to 1797, known for his less militaristic rule than his predecessor Frederick the Great and for overseeing both territorial gains and growing internal weaknesses in the Prussian state.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frederick William II of Prussia canonical | 31 |
| King Frederick William II of Prussia | 3 |
| Frederick William II | 1 |
| Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T521429 — 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: Frederick William II of Prussia Context triple: [Frederick II of Prussia, successor, Frederick William II of Prussia]
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Frederick William I of Prussia
Frederick William I of Prussia was the early 18th-century "Soldier King" who transformed Prussia into a highly militarized and efficiently administered state, laying the groundwork for its rise as a major European power.
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Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I of Prussia was the first King in Prussia, known for elevating the Duchy of Prussia to a kingdom and promoting culture, science, and absolutist rule in the early 18th century.
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Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia was the King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840, known for leading his kingdom through the Napoleonic Wars and initiating significant military and administrative reforms.
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Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, was a 17th-century ruler known as the "Great Elector" for transforming Brandenburg-Prussia into a centralized, militarily powerful state and laying the foundations for future Prussian greatness.
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Frederick II of Prussia
Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great, was an 18th-century Prussian king renowned for his military genius, enlightened absolutist rule, and transformation of Prussia into a major European power.
- 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: Frederick William II of Prussia Target entity description: Frederick William II of Prussia was King of Prussia from 1786 to 1797, known for his less militaristic rule than his predecessor Frederick the Great and for overseeing both territorial gains and growing internal weaknesses in the Prussian state.
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A.
Frederick William I of Prussia
Frederick William I of Prussia was the early 18th-century "Soldier King" who transformed Prussia into a highly militarized and efficiently administered state, laying the groundwork for its rise as a major European power.
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B.
Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I of Prussia was the first King in Prussia, known for elevating the Duchy of Prussia to a kingdom and promoting culture, science, and absolutist rule in the early 18th century.
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C.
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia was the King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840, known for leading his kingdom through the Napoleonic Wars and initiating significant military and administrative reforms.
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Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, was a 17th-century ruler known as the "Great Elector" for transforming Brandenburg-Prussia into a centralized, militarily powerful state and laying the foundations for future Prussian greatness.
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Frederick II of Prussia
Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great, was an 18th-century Prussian king renowned for his military genius, enlightened absolutist rule, and transformation of Prussia into a major European power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Frederick William II of Prussia Description of subject: Frederick William II of Prussia was King of Prussia from 1786 to 1797, known for his less militaristic rule than his predecessor Frederick the Great and for overseeing both territorial gains and growing internal weaknesses in the Prussian state.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Frederick William II of Prussia
this entity surface form:
King Frederick William II of Prussia
Frederick William II of Prussia
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regnalName
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Frederick William II of Prussia
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this entity surface form:
Frederick William II
this entity surface form:
Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia
this entity surface form:
King Frederick William II of Prussia
Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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significantParticipant
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Frederick William II of Prussia
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subject surface form:
Augustus William of Prussia
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Augustus William of Prussia
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New Garden
subject surface form:
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange
Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg
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monarchDuringReignAsAbbess
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Frederick William II of Prussia
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