Algirdas
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Algirdas was a 14th-century Grand Duke of Lithuania who greatly expanded the state's territory and influence, making it one of the largest powers in medieval Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Algirdas canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2636689 — 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: Algirdas Context triple: [Grand Duchy of Lithuania, notableRuler, Algirdas]
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A.
Gediminas
Gediminas was a 14th-century Grand Duke who greatly expanded the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and laid the foundations for its rise as a major European power.
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B.
Mindaugas
Mindaugas was the 13th-century monarch who unified Lithuanian lands and became the first and only crowned King of Lithuania, laying the foundations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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C.
Vytautas the Great
Vytautas the Great was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (r. c. 1392–1430) who expanded the Grand Duchy to its greatest territorial extent and played a central role in Eastern European politics, including the Polish-Lithuanian union and conflicts with the Teutonic Order and the Golden Horde.
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D.
Jogaila
Jogaila, also known as Władysław II Jagiełło, was the Grand Duke of Lithuania who became King of Poland and co-founded the Polish–Lithuanian union that shaped Central and Eastern European politics in the late Middle Ages.
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E.
Simas
Simas is a surname most notably associated with David Simas, an American lawyer and former political advisor who served in the Obama administration.
- 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: Algirdas Target entity description: Algirdas was a 14th-century Grand Duke of Lithuania who greatly expanded the state's territory and influence, making it one of the largest powers in medieval Europe.
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A.
Gediminas
Gediminas was a 14th-century Grand Duke who greatly expanded the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and laid the foundations for its rise as a major European power.
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B.
Mindaugas
Mindaugas was the 13th-century monarch who unified Lithuanian lands and became the first and only crowned King of Lithuania, laying the foundations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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C.
Vytautas the Great
Vytautas the Great was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (r. c. 1392–1430) who expanded the Grand Duchy to its greatest territorial extent and played a central role in Eastern European politics, including the Polish-Lithuanian union and conflicts with the Teutonic Order and the Golden Horde.
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D.
Jogaila
Jogaila, also known as Władysław II Jagiełło, was the Grand Duke of Lithuania who became King of Poland and co-founded the Polish–Lithuanian union that shaped Central and Eastern European politics in the late Middle Ages.
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E.
Simas
Simas is a surname most notably associated with David Simas, an American lawyer and former political advisor who served in the Obama administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Algirdas Description of subject: Algirdas was a 14th-century Grand Duke of Lithuania who greatly expanded the state's territory and influence, making it one of the largest powers in medieval Europe.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.