Bertha of Sulzbach
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Bertha of Sulzbach was a 12th-century German noblewoman who became Byzantine empress consort through her marriage to Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bertha of Sulzbach canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13112986 — 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: Bertha of Sulzbach Context triple: [Manuel I Komnenos, spouse, Bertha of Sulzbach]
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Bertha of Rheinfelden
Bertha of Rheinfelden was a medieval noblewoman, the daughter of anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden, who became Duchess of Swabia through marriage into the influential Zähringen dynasty.
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Gertrude of Sulzbach
Gertrude of Sulzbach was a 12th-century German noblewoman who became Queen of Germany and Holy Roman Empress as the wife of King Conrad III.
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Margarethe von der Saale
Margarethe von der Saale was the morganatic second wife of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, whose controversial bigamous marriage became a notable episode in Reformation-era German history.
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D.
Agnes of Waiblingen
Agnes of Waiblingen was a Salian princess and Holy Roman Empress who, through her marriages and offspring, played a key role in the dynastic politics of 12th-century Germany.
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E.
Ancelina of Lenzburg
Ancelina of Lenzburg was a medieval noblewoman from the House of Lenzburg who became Countess of Savoy through her marriage to Humbert I, an early ruler of the Savoyard dynasty.
- 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: Bertha of Sulzbach Target entity description: Bertha of Sulzbach was a 12th-century German noblewoman who became Byzantine empress consort through her marriage to Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
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A.
Bertha of Rheinfelden
Bertha of Rheinfelden was a medieval noblewoman, the daughter of anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden, who became Duchess of Swabia through marriage into the influential Zähringen dynasty.
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B.
Gertrude of Sulzbach
Gertrude of Sulzbach was a 12th-century German noblewoman who became Queen of Germany and Holy Roman Empress as the wife of King Conrad III.
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C.
Margarethe von der Saale
Margarethe von der Saale was the morganatic second wife of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, whose controversial bigamous marriage became a notable episode in Reformation-era German history.
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D.
Agnes of Waiblingen
Agnes of Waiblingen was a Salian princess and Holy Roman Empress who, through her marriages and offspring, played a key role in the dynastic politics of 12th-century Germany.
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E.
Ancelina of Lenzburg
Ancelina of Lenzburg was a medieval noblewoman from the House of Lenzburg who became Countess of Savoy through her marriage to Humbert I, an early ruler of the Savoyard dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century German woman
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Byzantine empress consort ⓘ German nobility ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Byzantine Empire
NERFINISHED
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Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Bertha of Sulzbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sulzbach, Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Constantinople NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| father | Berengar II of Sulzbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 12th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Bertha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
German
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Greek ⓘ |
| marriageType | dynastic marriage ⓘ |
| mother | Adelheid von Wolfratshausen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Sulzbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage alliance between the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantium ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Empress consort of the Romans ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| role | consort to Emperor Manuel I Komnenos ⓘ |
| sibling | Gertrude of Sulzbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Manuel I Komnenos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseDynasty | Komnenos dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseReign | Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseTitle | Byzantine emperor ⓘ |
| title |
Augusta
NERFINISHED
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Byzantine Empress consort ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bertha of Sulzbach Description of subject: Bertha of Sulzbach was a 12th-century German noblewoman who became Byzantine empress consort through her marriage to Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.