Anna of Smolensk
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Anna of Smolensk was a medieval noblewoman and the first wife of Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania, linking him to the Rus' princely families.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anna of Smolensk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8476394 — 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: Anna of Smolensk Context triple: [Vytautas the Great, spouse, Anna of Smolensk]
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A.
Euphemia of Kiev
Euphemia of Kiev was a Kievan Rus' princess of the Rurikid dynasty who became queen consort of Hungary through her marriage into the Árpád royal house.
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B.
Olga of Kiev
Olga of Kiev was a 10th-century regent of Kievan Rus' renowned for her ruthless vengeance against the Drevlians and later venerated as a saint for being one of the first prominent rulers in the region to convert to Christianity.
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C.
Rogneda of Polotsk
Rogneda of Polotsk was a 10th-century princess of the Principality of Polotsk and a consort of Kievan ruler Vladimir the Great, known for her significant role in the early history of Kievan Rus'.
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D.
Anna of Moscow
Anna of Moscow was a Russian princess from the Grand Duchy of Moscow who became Byzantine empress consort through her marriage to Emperor John VIII Palaiologos.
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E.
Elena of Moscow
Elena of Moscow was a Russian noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a daughter of Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow and a member of the ruling Rurikid dynasty.
- 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: Anna of Smolensk Target entity description: Anna of Smolensk was a medieval noblewoman and the first wife of Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania, linking him to the Rus' princely families.
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A.
Euphemia of Kiev
Euphemia of Kiev was a Kievan Rus' princess of the Rurikid dynasty who became queen consort of Hungary through her marriage into the Árpád royal house.
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B.
Olga of Kiev
Olga of Kiev was a 10th-century regent of Kievan Rus' renowned for her ruthless vengeance against the Drevlians and later venerated as a saint for being one of the first prominent rulers in the region to convert to Christianity.
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C.
Rogneda of Polotsk
Rogneda of Polotsk was a 10th-century princess of the Principality of Polotsk and a consort of Kievan ruler Vladimir the Great, known for her significant role in the early history of Kievan Rus'.
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D.
Anna of Moscow
Anna of Moscow was a Russian princess from the Grand Duchy of Moscow who became Byzantine empress consort through her marriage to Emperor John VIII Palaiologos.
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E.
Elena of Moscow
Elena of Moscow was a Russian noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known primarily as a daughter of Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow and a member of the ruling Rurikid dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
ⓘ
medieval noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rus' princely families ⓘ Smolensk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Vilnius Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Grand Duchy of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Grand Duchy of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ruthenian ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Anna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Church Slavonic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ruthenian ⓘ |
| marriedToTitleHolder | Grand Duke Vytautas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Smolensk princely family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | marriage alliance between Lithuania and Rus' princely houses ⓘ |
| notableFor | linking Vytautas the Great to Rus' princely families ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
|
| residence |
Trakai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vilnius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | high nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anna of Smolensk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vytautas the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOfRuler | Grand Duke of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | first wife of Vytautas the Great ⓘ |
| successorAsConsort | Juliana Olshanska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 15th century
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late 14th century ⓘ |
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: Anna of Smolensk Description of subject: Anna of Smolensk was a medieval noblewoman and the first wife of Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania, linking him to the Rus' princely families.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.