William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879)
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William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879), was the heir apparent to the Dutch throne in the mid-19th century whose early death prevented him from succeeding as king.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) canonical | 2 |
| Prince William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T601441 — 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, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) Context triple: [William III of the Netherlands, child, William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879)]
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A.
Philip William, Prince of Orange
Philip William, Prince of Orange was the eldest son and heir of William the Silent, who became Prince of Orange and a prominent noble in the Habsburg Netherlands during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands was a 19th-century Dutch prince and military leader, known as the second son of King William I and for his influential roles in the army and public life of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau was a Dutch royal and aerospace engineer who, after giving up his claim to the throne to marry without parliamentary approval, became known for his work in finance and technology before his death following a skiing accident.
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D.
William IV, Prince of Orange
William IV, Prince of Orange was an 18th-century Dutch stadtholder who became the first hereditary ruler of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
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William V, Prince of Orange
William V, Prince of Orange was the last hereditary stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, whose conservative rule and exile during the late 18th century marked the end of the traditional Dutch stadtholderate.
- 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, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) Target entity description: William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879), was the heir apparent to the Dutch throne in the mid-19th century whose early death prevented him from succeeding as king.
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A.
Philip William, Prince of Orange
Philip William, Prince of Orange was the eldest son and heir of William the Silent, who became Prince of Orange and a prominent noble in the Habsburg Netherlands during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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B.
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands was a 19th-century Dutch prince and military leader, known as the second son of King William I and for his influential roles in the army and public life of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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C.
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau was a Dutch royal and aerospace engineer who, after giving up his claim to the throne to marry without parliamentary approval, became known for his work in finance and technology before his death following a skiing accident.
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D.
William IV, Prince of Orange
William IV, Prince of Orange was an 18th-century Dutch stadtholder who became the first hereditary ruler of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
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E.
William V, Prince of Orange
William V, Prince of Orange was the last hereditary stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, whose conservative rule and exile during the late 18th century marked the end of the traditional Dutch stadtholderate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) Description of subject: William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879), was the heir apparent to the Dutch throne in the mid-19th century whose early death prevented him from succeeding as king.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879)