William I, Count of Hainaut
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William I, Count of Hainaut was a 14th-century nobleman who ruled the counties of Hainaut, Holland, and Zeeland and was the father of England’s Queen Philippa of Hainault.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William I, Count of Hainaut canonical | 5 |
| William I of Hainaut | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2587368 — 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: William I, Count of Hainaut Context triple: [Philippa of Hainault, father, William I, Count of Hainaut]
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Robert II of Flanders
Robert II of Flanders was a medieval count renowned as a prominent Frankish noble and military leader who played a key role in the First Crusade.
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Henry of Flanders
Henry of Flanders was the second Latin Emperor of Constantinople, ruling from 1206 to 1216 and noted for his relatively capable and conciliatory governance during the early years of the Latin Empire.
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Charles of Egmond
Charles of Egmond was a late 15th- and early 16th-century Duke of Guelders known for his prolonged resistance to Habsburg domination in the Low Countries.
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Philippe, Count of Flanders
Philippe, Count of Flanders was a 19th-century Belgian prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who played a prominent political and dynastic role in early Belgian history.
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William II of Holland
William II of Holland was a 13th-century Count of Holland who was elected King of the Romans during the struggle between the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the papacy in 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: William I, Count of Hainaut Target entity description: William I, Count of Hainaut was a 14th-century nobleman who ruled the counties of Hainaut, Holland, and Zeeland and was the father of England’s Queen Philippa of Hainault.
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A.
Robert II of Flanders
Robert II of Flanders was a medieval count renowned as a prominent Frankish noble and military leader who played a key role in the First Crusade.
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B.
Henry of Flanders
Henry of Flanders was the second Latin Emperor of Constantinople, ruling from 1206 to 1216 and noted for his relatively capable and conciliatory governance during the early years of the Latin Empire.
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C.
Charles of Egmond
Charles of Egmond was a late 15th- and early 16th-century Duke of Guelders known for his prolonged resistance to Habsburg domination in the Low Countries.
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D.
Philippe, Count of Flanders
Philippe, Count of Flanders was a 19th-century Belgian prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who played a prominent political and dynastic role in early Belgian history.
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E.
William II of Holland
William II of Holland was a 13th-century Count of Holland who was elected King of the Romans during the struggle between the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the papacy in the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: William I, Count of Hainaut Description of subject: William I, Count of Hainaut was a 14th-century nobleman who ruled the counties of Hainaut, Holland, and Zeeland and was the father of England’s Queen Philippa of Hainault.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Philippa of Hainault
this entity surface form:
William I of Hainaut
subject surface form:
Philippa of Hainault