Joan of Laval
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Joan of Laval was a 15th-century French noblewoman who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to Duke John VI.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan of Laval canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12647996 — 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: Joan of Laval Context triple: [John VI, Duke of Brittany, spouse, Joan of Laval]
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Joan of Penthièvre
Joan of Penthièvre was a 14th-century Breton noblewoman and rival claimant to the Duchy of Brittany, whose lineage and political role made her a central figure in the Breton War of Succession.
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Joan of Dammartin
Joan of Dammartin was a 13th-century French noblewoman who became a prominent feudal ruler and political figure through her inheritance and marriages within the European aristocracy.
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Joanna of Flanders
Joanna of Flanders was a 14th-century noblewoman and military leader renowned for her staunch defense of her husband's claim to the Duchy of Brittany and her dramatic leadership during the War of the Breton Succession.
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D.
Joan of Dampierre
Joan of Dampierre was a noblewoman of the Dampierre family and a medieval French countess best known as the mother of Henry III, Count of Bar.
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Joan of Lorraine
Joan of Lorraine is a 1946 stage play by Maxwell Anderson that presents a play-within-a-play dramatization of the life and legacy of Joan of Arc.
- 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: Joan of Laval Target entity description: Joan of Laval was a 15th-century French noblewoman who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to Duke John VI.
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A.
Joan of Penthièvre
Joan of Penthièvre was a 14th-century Breton noblewoman and rival claimant to the Duchy of Brittany, whose lineage and political role made her a central figure in the Breton War of Succession.
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B.
Joan of Dammartin
Joan of Dammartin was a 13th-century French noblewoman who became a prominent feudal ruler and political figure through her inheritance and marriages within the European aristocracy.
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C.
Joanna of Flanders
Joanna of Flanders was a 14th-century noblewoman and military leader renowned for her staunch defense of her husband's claim to the Duchy of Brittany and her dramatic leadership during the War of the Breton Succession.
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D.
Joan of Dampierre
Joan of Dampierre was a noblewoman of the Dampierre family and a medieval French countess best known as the mother of Henry III, Count of Bar.
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E.
Joan of Lorraine
Joan of Lorraine is a 1946 stage play by Maxwell Anderson that presents a play-within-a-play dramatization of the life and legacy of Joan of Arc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century person
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Duchess consort ⓘ French noble ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitle | duchess ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty |
Ducal house of Brittany
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linked to:
Capetian House of Dreux
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| associatedWithTerritory | Duchy of Brittany ⓘ |
| century | 15th century ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Laval ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duchess ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duchess consort of Brittany ⓘ |
| region | France ⓘ |
| residence |
Brittany
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Laval ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joan of Laval
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John VI, Duke of Brittany ⓘ |
| title |
Duchess of Brittany
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Lady of Laval ⓘ |
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: Joan of Laval Description of subject: Joan of Laval was a 15th-century French noblewoman who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to Duke John VI.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joan of Laval