Herleva of Falaise
E104915
Herleva of Falaise was a Norman woman of modest origins best known as the mother of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herleva of Falaise canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T883433 — 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: Herleva of Falaise Context triple: [William the Conqueror, mother, Herleva of Falaise]
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A.
Eremburga of Mortain
Eremburga of Mortain was a Norman noblewoman best known as the wife of Roger I, Count of Sicily, and a member of the influential Mortain family.
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B.
Judith of Évreux
Judith of Évreux was a Norman noblewoman of the House of Évreux who became Countess of Sicily through her marriage into the ruling Hauteville dynasty.
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C.
Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress of Arthurian legend, often depicted as King Arthur’s half-sister and a complex figure who alternates between adversary and ally to the knights of the Round Table.
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D.
Idelette de Bure
Idelette de Bure was the wife of Protestant Reformer John Calvin, a former Anabaptist widow who supported his ministry in Strasbourg and Geneva.
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E.
Queen Bavmorda
Queen Bavmorda is the ruthless and power-hungry sorceress-queen who serves as the primary villain in the fantasy film "Willow."
- 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: Herleva of Falaise Target entity description: Herleva of Falaise was a Norman woman of modest origins best known as the mother of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England.
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A.
Eremburga of Mortain
Eremburga of Mortain was a Norman noblewoman best known as the wife of Roger I, Count of Sicily, and a member of the influential Mortain family.
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B.
Judith of Évreux
Judith of Évreux was a Norman noblewoman of the House of Évreux who became Countess of Sicily through her marriage into the ruling Hauteville dynasty.
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C.
Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay is a powerful enchantress of Arthurian legend, often depicted as King Arthur’s half-sister and a complex figure who alternates between adversary and ally to the knights of the Round Table.
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D.
Idelette de Bure
Idelette de Bure was the wife of Protestant Reformer John Calvin, a former Anabaptist widow who supported his ministry in Strasbourg and Geneva.
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E.
Queen Bavmorda
Queen Bavmorda is the ruthless and power-hungry sorceress-queen who serves as the primary villain in the fantasy film "Willow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Herleva of Falaise Description of subject: Herleva of Falaise was a Norman woman of modest origins best known as the mother of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Odo of Bayeux (traditional attribution)
subject linked to:
Conteville family
subject linked to:
Conteville family
subject linked to:
Duke of Normandy William II