Adela of Normandy
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Adela of Normandy was a Norman noblewoman and influential Countess of Blois, best known as the daughter of William the Conqueror and mother of King Stephen of England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adela of Normandy canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4047392 — 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: Adela of Normandy Context triple: [William II of England, sibling, Adela of Normandy]
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Adeliza of Normandy
Adeliza of Normandy was a daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, belonging to the first generation of the Anglo-Norman royal family after the 1066 conquest of England.
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Cecilia of Normandy
Cecilia of Normandy was a Norman noblewoman, daughter of William the Conqueror, who became abbess of the influential Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen.
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Constance of Normandy
Constance of Normandy was a Norman princess, daughter of William the Conqueror, who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.
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Matilda of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
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Adeliza of Louvain
Adeliza of Louvain was a 12th-century noblewoman from the Duchy of Brabant who became the second wife and queen consort of King Henry I of England.
- 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: Adela of Normandy Target entity description: Adela of Normandy was a Norman noblewoman and influential Countess of Blois, best known as the daughter of William the Conqueror and mother of King Stephen of England.
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A.
Adeliza of Normandy
Adeliza of Normandy was a daughter of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, belonging to the first generation of the Anglo-Norman royal family after the 1066 conquest of England.
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B.
Cecilia of Normandy
Cecilia of Normandy was a Norman noblewoman, daughter of William the Conqueror, who became abbess of the influential Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen.
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C.
Constance of Normandy
Constance of Normandy was a Norman princess, daughter of William the Conqueror, who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.
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Matilda of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders was the influential duchess of Normandy and queen consort of England, known for her political acumen and support of her husband William the Conqueror’s rule.
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E.
Adeliza of Louvain
Adeliza of Louvain was a 12th-century noblewoman from the Duchy of Brabant who became the second wife and queen consort of King Henry I of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Adela of Normandy Description of subject: Adela of Normandy was a Norman noblewoman and influential Countess of Blois, best known as the daughter of William the Conqueror and mother of King Stephen of England.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.