Knut the Great
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Knut the Great was an early 11th-century king who ruled a vast North Sea empire encompassing England, Denmark, and Norway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Knut | 3 |
| Knut the Great canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11626567 — 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: Knut the Great Context triple: [Cnut the Great, alsoKnownAs, Knut the Great]
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A.
Knute
Knute is the given name of Knute Rockne, the legendary early 20th-century American football coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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B.
Olaf Guthfrithson
Olaf Guthfrithson was a 10th-century Viking king of Dublin and Northumbria known for his campaigns in northern Britain and involvement in the power struggles between Norse, English, and Scottish rulers.
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C.
Olaf Haraldsson
Olaf Haraldsson, also known as Saint Olaf, was an 11th-century king of Norway whose efforts to consolidate Christianity and royal power made him a central figure in Norwegian history and later its patron saint.
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D.
Olaf of Denmark
Olaf of Denmark was a short-lived 15th-century Danish prince of the House of Oldenburg, known primarily as the son of King Christian I of Denmark.
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E.
Waldemar
Waldemar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with Scandinavian and Central European nobility and notable figures.
- 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: Knut the Great Target entity description: Knut the Great was an early 11th-century king who ruled a vast North Sea empire encompassing England, Denmark, and Norway.
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A.
Knute
Knute is the given name of Knute Rockne, the legendary early 20th-century American football coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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B.
Olaf Guthfrithson
Olaf Guthfrithson was a 10th-century Viking king of Dublin and Northumbria known for his campaigns in northern Britain and involvement in the power struggles between Norse, English, and Scottish rulers.
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C.
Olaf Haraldsson
Olaf Haraldsson, also known as Saint Olaf, was an 11th-century king of Norway whose efforts to consolidate Christianity and royal power made him a central figure in Norwegian history and later its patron saint.
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D.
Olaf of Denmark
Olaf of Denmark was a short-lived 15th-century Danish prince of the House of Oldenburg, known primarily as the son of King Christian I of Denmark.
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E.
Waldemar
Waldemar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with Scandinavian and Central European nobility and notable figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian
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King of Denmark ⓘ King of England ⓘ King of Norway ⓘ human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 995 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Old Minster, Winchester, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Gunhilda of Denmark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harold Harefoot NERFINISHED ⓘ Harthacnut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1035 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Shaftesbury, Dorset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | House of Knýtlinga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 11th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Sweyn Forkbeard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
legend of commanding the tide
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ruling a vast North Sea empire ⓘ |
| mother |
Gunhild of Wenden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Świętosława NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name |
Canute the Great
NERFINISHED
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Cnut the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ Knut the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
secured recognition from the papacy
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united England, Denmark, and Norway under his rule ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Assandun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
conquest of England in 1016 ⓘ |
| notableWork | formation of the North Sea Empire ⓘ |
| occupation | king ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Edmund Ironside
NERFINISHED
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Olaf II of Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweyn Forkbeard (in Denmark) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd |
1035 (as King of Denmark)
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1035 (as King of England) ⓘ 1035 (as King of Norway) ⓘ |
| reignStart |
1016 (as King of England)
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1018 (as King of Denmark) ⓘ 1028 (as King of Norway) ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Emma of Normandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ælfgifu of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor |
Harold Harefoot
NERFINISHED
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Harthacnut (in Denmark) NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnus the Good (in Norway) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territoryRuled |
Denmark
NERFINISHED
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England NERFINISHED ⓘ Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Sweden ⓘ |
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: Knut the Great Description of subject: Knut the Great was an early 11th-century king who ruled a vast North Sea empire encompassing England, Denmark, and Norway.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Knut
this entity surface form:
Knut
this entity surface form:
Knut