Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
E279063
Duke of Bavaria
Holy Roman Emperor
King of Germany
King of Italy
King of the Romans
Roman Catholic saint
member of the Ottonian dynasty
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor was the last Saxon ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, noted for his close alliance with the Church and his role in consolidating imperial authority in the early 11th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor canonical | 16 |
| Holy Roman Emperor Henry II | 4 |
| Heinrich II, Holy Roman Emperor | 1 |
| King Henry II of Germany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2020209 — 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 II, Holy Roman Emperor Context triple: [Ottonian dynasty, hasMember, Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor]
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Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor was an 11th-century ruler who strengthened imperial authority over the German kingdom and the Church, becoming one of the most powerful medieval Holy Roman Emperors.
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B.
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor was a 12th-century ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from the Hohenstaufen dynasty, known for expanding imperial authority in Italy and famously holding King Richard I of England captive.
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C.
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor was an 11th-century ruler of the Holy Roman Empire whose reign was marked by intense conflict with the papacy over the authority to appoint bishops, culminating in the famous Walk to Canossa.
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D.
Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor
Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor was a 15th-century ruler from the House of Habsburg who briefly reigned as King of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor before his early death.
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E.
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the first ruler of the Salian dynasty who reigned from 1027 to 1039 and worked to consolidate imperial authority over the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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 II, Holy Roman Emperor Target entity description: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor was the last Saxon ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, noted for his close alliance with the Church and his role in consolidating imperial authority in the early 11th century.
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A.
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor was an 11th-century ruler who strengthened imperial authority over the German kingdom and the Church, becoming one of the most powerful medieval Holy Roman Emperors.
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B.
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor was a 12th-century ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from the Hohenstaufen dynasty, known for expanding imperial authority in Italy and famously holding King Richard I of England captive.
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C.
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor was an 11th-century ruler of the Holy Roman Empire whose reign was marked by intense conflict with the papacy over the authority to appoint bishops, culminating in the famous Walk to Canossa.
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D.
Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor
Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor was a 15th-century ruler from the House of Habsburg who briefly reigned as King of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor before his early death.
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E.
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, was the first ruler of the Salian dynasty who reigned from 1027 to 1039 and worked to consolidate imperial authority over the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Bavaria
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Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ King of Germany ⓘ King of Italy ⓘ King of the Romans ⓘ Roman Catholic saint ⓘ member of the Ottonian dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Bamberg ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Bamberg Cathedral ⓘ |
| canonizationDate | 1146 ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint ⓘ |
| canonizedBy | Pope Eugene III ⓘ |
| coronation |
as Holy Roman Emperor in Rome in 1014
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as King of Germany at Mainz in 1002 ⓘ as King of Italy at Pavia in 1004 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 973 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 13 July 1024 ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| father | Henry II, Duke of Bavaria ⓘ |
| feastDay | 13 July ⓘ |
| founded | Diocese of Bamberg ⓘ |
| fullName | Henry II ⓘ |
| house |
Ottonian dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
House of Ottonian
|
| knownFor |
founding the Diocese of Bamberg
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strengthening the alliance between the Empire and the Church ⓘ supporting church reform ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old High German ⓘ |
| mother | Gisela of Burgundy ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Ottonian dynasty ⓘ |
| notableFact |
had no surviving children
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last Saxon Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ |
| patronage |
patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire
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patron saint of the city of Bamberg ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bad Abbach
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Duchy of Bavaria ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Duchy of Saxony
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Pfalz Grona ⓘ near Göttingen ⓘ |
| predecessor | Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ |
| reign |
as Holy Roman Emperor: 1014–1024
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as King of Germany: 1002–1024 ⓘ as King of Italy: 1004–1024 ⓘ |
| reignAsDukeOfBavaria | 995–1004 ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Cunigunde of Luxembourg ⓘ |
| succeededAsDukeOfBavaria | 995 ⓘ |
| successor | Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ |
| title | Saint Henry ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Lutheranism ⓘ
surface form:
Lutheran Church
|
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: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Description of subject: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor was the last Saxon ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, noted for his close alliance with the Church and his role in consolidating imperial authority in the early 11th century.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Heinrich II, Holy Roman Emperor
this entity surface form:
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II
this entity surface form:
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II
this entity surface form:
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II
subject surface form:
Merseburg Cathedral
this entity surface form:
King Henry II of Germany
subject surface form:
Merseburg Cathedral
this entity surface form:
Holy Roman Emperor Henry II