William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
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William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman of the House of Nassau and the father of William the Silent, founder of the Dutch royal line.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg canonical | 11 |
| Count William I of Nassau-Dillenburg | 1 |
| William the Rich, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3191401 — 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 Nassau-Dillenburg Context triple: [Juliana of Stolberg, spouse, William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]
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Walram II, Count of Nassau
Walram II, Count of Nassau, was a 13th-century German nobleman whose lineage founded the Walramian branch of the House of Nassau, an important dynasty in German and European history.
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Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a late 16th- and early 17th-century German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Weilburg within the Holy Roman Empire.
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John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman and staunch Calvinist who played a key political and military role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt alongside his brother William the Silent.
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John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Weilburg and helped shape its territorial and dynastic development.
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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.
- 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 Nassau-Dillenburg Target entity description: William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman of the House of Nassau and the father of William the Silent, founder of the Dutch royal line.
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A.
Walram II, Count of Nassau
Walram II, Count of Nassau, was a 13th-century German nobleman whose lineage founded the Walramian branch of the House of Nassau, an important dynasty in German and European history.
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B.
Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a late 16th- and early 17th-century German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Weilburg within the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman and staunch Calvinist who played a key political and military role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt alongside his brother William the Silent.
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D.
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a late medieval German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Weilburg and helped shape its territorial and dynastic development.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Nassau-Dillenburg Description of subject: William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman of the House of Nassau and the father of William the Silent, founder of the Dutch royal line.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Count William I of Nassau-Dillenburg
subject surface form:
Juliana of Stolberg
subject surface form:
Juliana of Stolberg
this entity surface form:
William the Rich, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg