William I of the Netherlands
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William I of the Netherlands was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who played a key role in establishing the modern Dutch state after the Napoleonic era.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William I of the Netherlands canonical | 48 |
| King William I of the Netherlands | 18 |
| Willem Frederik | 2 |
| William Frederick of Orange-Nassau | 2 |
| William I, King of the Netherlands | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50439 — 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 I of the Netherlands Context triple: [House of Orange-Nassau, hasNotableMember, William I of the Netherlands]
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A.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was a German-born Dutch prince consort, husband of Queen Juliana, noted for his role in the Dutch resistance during World War II and for founding the World Wildlife Fund.
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Willem-Alexander
Willem-Alexander is the King of the Netherlands, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the country's first male monarch in over a century.
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Philippe of Belgium
Philippe of Belgium is the current King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the constitutional monarch of Belgium.
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Prince William of Orange (disputed)
Prince William of Orange (disputed) is a historically contested namesake figure associated with the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau, often linked to colonial-era place naming in what is now the United States.
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Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte is a Dutch liberal politician who served for many years as the Netherlands’ longest-tenured prime minister and leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- 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 I of the Netherlands Target entity description: William I of the Netherlands was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who played a key role in establishing the modern Dutch state after the Napoleonic era.
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A.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was a German-born Dutch prince consort, husband of Queen Juliana, noted for his role in the Dutch resistance during World War II and for founding the World Wildlife Fund.
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B.
Willem-Alexander
Willem-Alexander is the King of the Netherlands, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the country's first male monarch in over a century.
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C.
Philippe of Belgium
Philippe of Belgium is the current King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the constitutional monarch of Belgium.
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Prince William of Orange (disputed)
Prince William of Orange (disputed) is a historically contested namesake figure associated with the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau, often linked to colonial-era place naming in what is now the United States.
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E.
Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte is a Dutch liberal politician who served for many years as the Netherlands’ longest-tenured prime minister and leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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 I of the Netherlands Description of subject: William I of the Netherlands was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who played a key role in establishing the modern Dutch state after the Napoleonic era.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King William I of the Netherlands
subject surface form:
Henrietta d’Oultremont
subject surface form:
Henrietta d’Oultremont
this entity surface form:
William I, King of the Netherlands
this entity surface form:
King William I of the Netherlands
subject surface form:
Marianne of the Netherlands
subject surface form:
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange
Kingdom of the Netherlands (1839–1866) Duchy of Limburg in German Confederation
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William I of the Netherlands
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subject surface form:
Grand Cross of the Military Order of William
this entity surface form:
King William I of the Netherlands
subject surface form:
Grand Cross of the Military Order of William
this entity surface form:
King William I of the Netherlands
this entity surface form:
King William I of the Netherlands