William the Rich
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William the Rich was a 16th-century Count of Nassau and father of William the Silent, playing a key role in the lineage that shaped Dutch and German noble history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William the Rich canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8797658 — 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: William the Rich Context triple: [Nassau-Dillenburg line, hasMember, William the Rich]
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William the Rich
William the Rich was a 16th-century nobleman best known as the Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and a significant regional ruler in the Holy Roman Empire.
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William the Englishman
William the Englishman was a medieval architect known for his work on the reconstruction and design of Canterbury Cathedral following earlier phases of its development.
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Guillaume Cale
Guillaume Cale was a 14th-century French peasant leader who headed the Jacquerie uprising against the nobility during the Hundred Years' War.
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Geoffrey the Handsome
Geoffrey the Handsome was a 12th-century Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, notable as the husband of Empress Matilda and the father of King Henry II of England, founding the Plantagenet dynasty.
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E.
Henry the Suffering
Henry the Suffering was Henry III of Castile, a late 14th- and early 15th-century king of Castile and León known for his poor health and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
- 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: William the Rich Target entity description: William the Rich was a 16th-century Count of Nassau and father of William the Silent, playing a key role in the lineage that shaped Dutch and German noble history.
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A.
William the Rich
William the Rich was a 16th-century nobleman best known as the Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and a significant regional ruler in the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
William the Englishman
William the Englishman was a medieval architect known for his work on the reconstruction and design of Canterbury Cathedral following earlier phases of its development.
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C.
Guillaume Cale
Guillaume Cale was a 14th-century French peasant leader who headed the Jacquerie uprising against the nobility during the Hundred Years' War.
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D.
Geoffrey the Handsome
Geoffrey the Handsome was a 12th-century Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, notable as the husband of Empress Matilda and the father of King Henry II of England, founding the Plantagenet dynasty.
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E.
Henry the Suffering
Henry the Suffering was Henry III of Castile, a late 14th- and early 15th-century king of Castile and León known for his poor health and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Count
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human ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1487-04-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1559-10-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| father | John V, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Adolf of Nassau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis of Nassau NERFINISHED ⓘ William the Silent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 16th century ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Wilhelm der Reiche
NERFINISHED
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William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | lineage of Dutch royal House of Orange-Nassau ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| mother | Johanna of Polanen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Nassau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | reorganization of Nassau family estates ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being father of William the Silent
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role in the lineage of Dutch and German nobility ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Juliana of Stolberg NERFINISHED ⓘ William the Silent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | consolidation of Nassau-Dillenburg possessions ⓘ |
| partOf | Holy Roman Empire nobility ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Count of Nassau
NERFINISHED
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Count of Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Nassau-Dillenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Dillenburg Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Juliana of Stolberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
NERFINISHED
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Count of Vianden NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord of Breda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William the Rich Description of subject: William the Rich was a 16th-century Count of Nassau and father of William the Silent, playing a key role in the lineage that shaped Dutch and German noble history.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.