Švitrigaila
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Švitrigaila was a 15th-century Lithuanian prince of the Gediminid dynasty who briefly ruled as Grand Duke of Lithuania amid intense dynastic and political struggles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Švitrigaila canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8476386 — 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: Švitrigaila Context triple: [Vytautas the Great, successor, Švitrigaila]
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A.
Simas
Simas is a surname most notably associated with David Simas, an American lawyer and former political advisor who served in the Obama administration.
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B.
Marčiulionis
Marčiulionis is a Lithuanian surname most famously associated with Šarūnas Marčiulionis, a pioneering European guard in the NBA and a key figure in Lithuanian basketball history.
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C.
Zydrunas
Zydrunas is a Lithuanian masculine given name most notably borne by former NBA center Zydrunas Ilgauskas.
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D.
Petras
Petras is an important Minoan archaeological site near Sitia on the island of Crete, known for its palace complex and rich Bronze Age remains.
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E.
Jogaila
Jogaila, also known as Władysław II Jagiełło, was the Grand Duke of Lithuania who became King of Poland and co-founded the Polish–Lithuanian union that shaped Central and Eastern European politics in the late Middle Ages.
- 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: Švitrigaila Target entity description: Švitrigaila was a 15th-century Lithuanian prince of the Gediminid dynasty who briefly ruled as Grand Duke of Lithuania amid intense dynastic and political struggles.
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A.
Simas
Simas is a surname most notably associated with David Simas, an American lawyer and former political advisor who served in the Obama administration.
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B.
Marčiulionis
Marčiulionis is a Lithuanian surname most famously associated with Šarūnas Marčiulionis, a pioneering European guard in the NBA and a key figure in Lithuanian basketball history.
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C.
Zydrunas
Zydrunas is a Lithuanian masculine given name most notably borne by former NBA center Zydrunas Ilgauskas.
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D.
Petras
Petras is an important Minoan archaeological site near Sitia on the island of Crete, known for its palace complex and rich Bronze Age remains.
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E.
Jogaila
Jogaila, also known as Władysław II Jagiełło, was the Grand Duke of Lithuania who became King of Poland and co-founded the Polish–Lithuanian union that shaped Central and Eastern European politics in the late Middle Ages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grand Duke of Lithuania
ⓘ
Lithuanian prince ⓘ human ⓘ member of the Gediminid dynasty ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Teutonic Order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Swidrigailo
NERFINISHED
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Švitrigaila Algirdaitis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lutsk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
civil war against Sigismund Kęstutaitis
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power struggle with Jogaila and Vytautas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Grand Duchy of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 1370 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 10 February 1452 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Lithuanians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Algirdas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Švitrigaila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Lithuanian
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Polish ⓘ Ruthenian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Uliana of Tver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Gediminids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
continued rule over parts of Ruthenian lands after 1432
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deposition as Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1432 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
opposition to the Polish–Lithuanian union in its contemporary form
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struggle for the throne of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Lithuanian nobles supporting Sigismund Kęstutaitis
ⓘ
Polish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Lithuanian Civil War (1432–1438) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Grand Duchy of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lutsk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Grand Duke of Lithuania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince of Podolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Vitebsk NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Volhynia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Vytautas the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1432 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1430 ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
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| ruledTerritory | eastern and southern lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ⓘ |
| sibling |
Jogaila
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skirgaila NERFINISHED ⓘ Vytautas the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Sigismund Kęstutaitis 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: Švitrigaila Description of subject: Švitrigaila was a 15th-century Lithuanian prince of the Gediminid dynasty who briefly ruled as Grand Duke of Lithuania amid intense dynastic and political struggles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.