Godfrey II, Count of Louvain
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Godfrey II, Count of Louvain was a 12th-century nobleman from the Low Countries who ruled as Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lotharingia, strengthening the regional power of his dynasty.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Godfrey II of Lower Lorraine | 1 |
| Godfrey II, Count of Leuven | 1 |
| Godfrey II, Count of Louvain canonical | 1 |
| Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine | 1 |
| Godfrey of Leuven, landgrave of Brabant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9259472 — 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: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain Context triple: [House of Reginar, notableMember, Godfrey II, Count of Louvain]
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Godfrey I, Count of Louvain
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain was a prominent early 12th-century nobleman in the Low Countries, notable as a powerful regional ruler and the father of Adeliza of Louvain, queen consort of England.
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Arnulf II, Count of Flanders
Arnulf II, Count of Flanders was a 10th-century nobleman who ruled the County of Flanders from 965 to 987, overseeing its consolidation during a period of regional power struggles in medieval Europe.
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Louis II, Count of Flanders
Louis II, Count of Flanders was a 14th-century Flemish nobleman whose rule was marked by complex alliances with France and England and significant involvement in the Hundred Years' War.
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Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders was a powerful early 10th-century Frankish nobleman who expanded and consolidated the County of Flanders into a significant principality in northwest Europe.
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Arnulf I, Count of Flanders
Arnulf I, Count of Flanders was a powerful 10th-century Flemish ruler who significantly expanded and consolidated the County of Flanders into a major principality in medieval Northwestern Europe.
- 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: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain Target entity description: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain was a 12th-century nobleman from the Low Countries who ruled as Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lotharingia, strengthening the regional power of his dynasty.
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A.
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain was a prominent early 12th-century nobleman in the Low Countries, notable as a powerful regional ruler and the father of Adeliza of Louvain, queen consort of England.
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B.
Arnulf II, Count of Flanders
Arnulf II, Count of Flanders was a 10th-century nobleman who ruled the County of Flanders from 965 to 987, overseeing its consolidation during a period of regional power struggles in medieval Europe.
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C.
Louis II, Count of Flanders
Louis II, Count of Flanders was a 14th-century Flemish nobleman whose rule was marked by complex alliances with France and England and significant involvement in the Hundred Years' War.
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D.
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders was a powerful early 10th-century Frankish nobleman who expanded and consolidated the County of Flanders into a significant principality in northwest Europe.
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E.
Arnulf I, Count of Flanders
Arnulf I, Count of Flanders was a powerful 10th-century Flemish ruler who significantly expanded and consolidated the County of Flanders into a major principality in medieval Northwestern Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century person
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Count of Louvain ⓘ Duke of Lower Lotharingia ⓘ Landgrave of Brabant ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
County of Louvain
NERFINISHED
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Duchy of Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ Landgraviate of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Peter's Church, Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Albert of Louvain
NERFINISHED
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Godfrey III, Count of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry I, Duke of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Low Countries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1142 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Godfrey I, Count of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment | Middle Dutch ⓘ |
| mother | Ida of Chiny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Reginar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank |
count
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duke ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Count of Louvain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke of Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ Landgrave of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Godfrey I, Count of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm |
Brabant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Low Countries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignAsDukeOfLowerLotharingiaStart | 1139 ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1142 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1139 ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
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| spouse | Lutgardis of Sulzbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strengthened | regional power of his dynasty ⓘ |
| successor | Godfrey III, Count of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Count of Louvain
NERFINISHED
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Duke of Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ Landgrave of Brabant 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: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain Description of subject: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain was a 12th-century nobleman from the Low Countries who ruled as Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lotharingia, strengthening the regional power of his dynasty.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Godfrey II, Count of Leuven
this entity surface form:
Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine
this entity surface form:
Godfrey of Leuven, landgrave of Brabant
this entity surface form:
Godfrey II of Lower Lorraine