Matilda of Flanders
E128975
Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matilda of Flanders canonical | 20 |
| Duchess of Normandy | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T883434 — 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: Matilda of Flanders Context triple: [William the Conqueror, spouse, Matilda of Flanders]
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A.
Adèle of Champagne
Adèle of Champagne was a 12th-century French queen consort and influential noblewoman, best known as the wife of King Louis VII of France and the mother of King Philip II.
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B.
Isabella of Hainaut
Isabella of Hainaut was a 12th-century French queen consort, the first wife of King Philip II of France and mother of the future King Louis VIII.
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C.
Yolande of Dreux
Yolande of Dreux was a 13th-century French noblewoman who became Queen Consort of Scotland through her marriage to King Alexander III.
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D.
Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant
Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant, was a 13th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward I, who became Duchess consort of Brabant through her marriage to John II, Duke of Brabant.
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E.
Queen Philippa of Hainault
Queen Philippa of Hainault was a 14th-century Queen of England, wife of King Edward III, noted for her political influence, patronage of learning, and reputation for kindness and mercy.
- 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: Matilda of Flanders Target entity description: Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
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A.
Adèle of Champagne
Adèle of Champagne was a 12th-century French queen consort and influential noblewoman, best known as the wife of King Louis VII of France and the mother of King Philip II.
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B.
Isabella of Hainaut
Isabella of Hainaut was a 12th-century French queen consort, the first wife of King Philip II of France and mother of the future King Louis VIII.
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C.
Yolande of Dreux
Yolande of Dreux was a 13th-century French noblewoman who became Queen Consort of Scotland through her marriage to King Alexander III.
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D.
Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant
Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant, was a 13th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward I, who became Duchess consort of Brabant through her marriage to John II, Duke of Brabant.
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E.
Queen Philippa of Hainault
Queen Philippa of Hainault was a 14th-century Queen of England, wife of King Edward III, noted for her political influence, patronage of learning, and reputation for kindness and mercy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Matilda of Flanders Description of subject: Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edith of Scotland
this entity surface form:
Duchess of Normandy
this entity surface form:
Duchess of Normandy
this entity surface form:
Duchess of Normandy
this entity surface form:
Duchess of Normandy