Godfrey III, Count of Louvain
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Godfrey III, Count of Louvain was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled as Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lotharingia, playing a key role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine | 2 |
| Godfrey III of Lower Lorraine | 1 |
| Godfrey III, Count of Leuven | 1 |
| Godfrey III, Count of Louvain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9259473 — 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 III, Count of Louvain Context triple: [House of Reginar, notableMember, Godfrey III, Count of Louvain]
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Godfrey II, Count of Louvain
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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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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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 III, Count of Louvain Target entity description: Godfrey III, Count of Louvain was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled as Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lotharingia, playing a key role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries.
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A.
Godfrey II, Count of Louvain
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
count
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duke ⓘ human ⓘ landgrave ⓘ medieval nobleman ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Godfrey III of Louvain
NERFINISHED
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Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | circa 1140 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Peter's Church, Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Adelaide of Louvain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Albert of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ Godfrey of Louvain (canon of St. Peter) NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry I, Duke of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ Matilda of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1190 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Schaerbeek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 12th century ⓘ |
| father | Godfrey II, Count of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Godfrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Lutgardis of Sulzbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Reginar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consolidation of Brabantine territories
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participation in imperial politics under the Holy Roman Emperors ⓘ rule in the Low Countries within the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| participatedIn | politics of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Count of Louvain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duke of Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ Landgrave of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ Margrave of Antwerp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Brabant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ Lower Lotharingia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1190 ⓘ |
| reignEndAsDukeOfLowerLotharingia | 1190 ⓘ |
| reignEndAsLandgraveOfBrabant | 1190 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1142 ⓘ |
| reignStartAsDukeOfLowerLotharingia | 1142 ⓘ |
| reignStartAsLandgraveOfBrabant | circa 1183 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Imagina of Loon
NERFINISHED
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Margaret of Limburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeeded | Godfrey II, Count of Louvain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Henry I, Duke of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCreatedDuringReign | Landgraviate of Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vassalOf | Holy Roman Emperor 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: Godfrey III, Count of Louvain Description of subject: Godfrey III, Count of Louvain was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled as Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lotharingia, playing a key role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Godfrey III, Count of Leuven
this entity surface form:
Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine
this entity surface form:
Godfrey III of Lower Lorraine
this entity surface form:
Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine