Charles I of Anjou
E94136
Capetian dynasty member
Count of Anjou
Count of Provence
House of Anjou
King of Naples
King of Sicily
human
medieval monarch
Charles I of Anjou was a 13th-century French prince and military leader who became king in southern Italy and Sicily, playing a major role in Mediterranean politics and the decline of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles I of Anjou canonical | 50 |
| Charles of Anjou | 3 |
| Charles I of Anjou (as Angevin overlord) | 1 |
| Charles Robert of Anjou | 1 |
| Charles of Anjou (historical earlier creation) | 1 |
| Philip of Anjou | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T709964 — 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: Charles I of Anjou Context triple: [Kingdom of Naples, foundedBy, Charles I of Anjou]
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Charles VII of Naples
Charles VII of Naples was an 18th-century Bourbon monarch who ruled Naples and Sicily before becoming King Charles III of Spain, where he implemented significant enlightened reforms.
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Roger II of Sicily
Roger II of Sicily was a 12th-century Norman king who unified southern Italy and Sicily into a powerful, culturally diverse Mediterranean kingdom.
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Roger I of Sicily
Roger I of Sicily was an 11th-century Norman noble who conquered and founded the County of Sicily, laying the foundations for Norman rule in southern Italy.
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Bohemond I of Antioch
Bohemond I of Antioch was an Italo-Norman crusader prince and military leader who played a key role in the First Crusade and became the first Prince of Antioch.
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Robert Guiscard
Robert Guiscard was an 11th-century Norman adventurer and military leader who played a key role in the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily, founding Norman rule in the region.
- 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: Charles I of Anjou Target entity description: Charles I of Anjou was a 13th-century French prince and military leader who became king in southern Italy and Sicily, playing a major role in Mediterranean politics and the decline of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
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A.
Charles VII of Naples
Charles VII of Naples was an 18th-century Bourbon monarch who ruled Naples and Sicily before becoming King Charles III of Spain, where he implemented significant enlightened reforms.
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B.
Roger II of Sicily
Roger II of Sicily was a 12th-century Norman king who unified southern Italy and Sicily into a powerful, culturally diverse Mediterranean kingdom.
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C.
Roger I of Sicily
Roger I of Sicily was an 11th-century Norman noble who conquered and founded the County of Sicily, laying the foundations for Norman rule in southern Italy.
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D.
Bohemond I of Antioch
Bohemond I of Antioch was an Italo-Norman crusader prince and military leader who played a key role in the First Crusade and became the first Prince of Antioch.
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E.
Robert Guiscard
Robert Guiscard was an 11th-century Norman adventurer and military leader who played a key role in the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily, founding Norman rule in the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Charles I of Anjou Description of subject: Charles I of Anjou was a 13th-century French prince and military leader who became king in southern Italy and Sicily, playing a major role in Mediterranean politics and the decline of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charles Robert of Anjou