Henry III of Nassau-Breda
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Henry III of Nassau-Breda was a prominent early 16th-century nobleman and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands, known for his influential role at the courts of Emperor Charles V and his position as a key ancestor of the later Dutch House of Orange-Nassau.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry III of Nassau-Breda canonical | 9 |
| Henry III, Count of Nassau-Breda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1877272 — 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: Henry III of Nassau-Breda Context triple: [House of Nassau, notableMember, Henry III of Nassau-Breda]
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Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz
Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz was a 17th-century Dutch nobleman and military leader who served as Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe during the Eighty Years' War.
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B.
Ernest Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz
Ernest Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz was a Dutch nobleman and military leader who served as Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe in the early 17th century and established the Nassau-Dietz branch of the House of Nassau.
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Willem van Nassau
Willem van Nassau is the birth name of William I of Orange, the 16th-century nobleman who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the Netherlands.
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William of Nassau-Siegen
William of Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German nobleman and military commander from the House of Nassau who served prominently in European conflicts of his time.
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E.
Duke of Guelders
The Duke of Guelders was the sovereign ruler of the historical duchy of Guelders in the Low Countries, a title often held by prominent European monarchs such as Frederick William I of Prussia.
- 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: Henry III of Nassau-Breda Target entity description: Henry III of Nassau-Breda was a prominent early 16th-century nobleman and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands, known for his influential role at the courts of Emperor Charles V and his position as a key ancestor of the later Dutch House of Orange-Nassau.
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A.
Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz
Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz was a 17th-century Dutch nobleman and military leader who served as Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe during the Eighty Years' War.
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B.
Ernest Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz
Ernest Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz was a Dutch nobleman and military leader who served as Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe in the early 17th century and established the Nassau-Dietz branch of the House of Nassau.
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C.
Willem van Nassau
Willem van Nassau is the birth name of William I of Orange, the 16th-century nobleman who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the Netherlands.
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D.
William of Nassau-Siegen
William of Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German nobleman and military commander from the House of Nassau who served prominently in European conflicts of his time.
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E.
Duke of Guelders
The Duke of Guelders was the sovereign ruler of the historical duchy of Guelders in the Low Countries, a title often held by prominent European monarchs such as Frederick William I of Prussia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Henry III of Nassau-Breda Description of subject: Henry III of Nassau-Breda was a prominent early 16th-century nobleman and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands, known for his influential role at the courts of Emperor Charles V and his position as a key ancestor of the later Dutch House of Orange-Nassau.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henry III, Count of Nassau-Breda