John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
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John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled parts of what is now Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate and was an ancestor of the later Dutch royal line.
All labels observed (2)
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| John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg canonical | 2 |
| John, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1416) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15527165 — 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: John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg Context triple: [Count of Nassau, titleHolder, John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]
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John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman and staunch Calvinist who played a key political and military role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt alongside his brother William the Silent.
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John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Weilburg and helped shape its territorial and dynastic development.
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C.
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen was a German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Siegen in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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D.
John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German nobleman and military leader from the Nassau-Siegen line who played a role in the political and religious conflicts of the Thirty Years’ War era.
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E.
Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled parts of the Nassau territories in what is now western Germany.
- 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: John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg Target entity description: John IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled parts of what is now Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate and was an ancestor of the later Dutch royal line.
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A.
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman and staunch Calvinist who played a key political and military role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt alongside his brother William the Silent.
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B.
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Weilburg and helped shape its territorial and dynastic development.
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C.
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen was a German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Siegen in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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D.
John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German nobleman and military leader from the Nassau-Siegen line who played a role in the political and religious conflicts of the Thirty Years’ War era.
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E.
Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled parts of the Nassau territories in what is now western Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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