Charles II of Naples
E443580
Charles II of Naples was a late 13th- and early 14th-century Angevin king of Naples who struggled to maintain his dynasty’s rule in southern Italy and over contested Mediterranean territories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles II of Naples canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4313668 — 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: Charles II of Naples Context triple: [Charles I of Anjou, child, Charles II of Naples]
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Charles III of Naples
Charles III of Naples was a 14th-century Angevin king who seized the Neapolitan throne amid dynastic conflict and briefly ruled both Naples and Hungary.
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B.
Charles I of Naples
Charles I of Naples was a 13th-century French-born monarch from the House of Anjou who became King of Sicily and Naples and played a major role in Mediterranean and Italian politics.
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Charles VII of Naples
Charles VII of Naples was an 18th-century Bourbon monarch who ruled Naples and Sicily before becoming King Charles III of Spain, where he implemented significant enlightened reforms.
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Ferdinand I of Naples
Ferdinand I of Naples was a 15th-century monarch from the House of Trastámara who consolidated royal authority in southern Italy amid dynastic conflicts and foreign interventions.
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E.
Frederick III of Sicily
Frederick III of Sicily was a 13th–14th century king of Sicily from the House of Aragon who consolidated Aragonese rule on the island amid prolonged conflict with the Angevin dynasty and the papacy.
- 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: Charles II of Naples Target entity description: Charles II of Naples was a late 13th- and early 14th-century Angevin king of Naples who struggled to maintain his dynasty’s rule in southern Italy and over contested Mediterranean territories.
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A.
Charles III of Naples
Charles III of Naples was a 14th-century Angevin king who seized the Neapolitan throne amid dynastic conflict and briefly ruled both Naples and Hungary.
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B.
Charles I of Naples
Charles I of Naples was a 13th-century French-born monarch from the House of Anjou who became King of Sicily and Naples and played a major role in Mediterranean and Italian politics.
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C.
Charles VII of Naples
Charles VII of Naples was an 18th-century Bourbon monarch who ruled Naples and Sicily before becoming King Charles III of Spain, where he implemented significant enlightened reforms.
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D.
Ferdinand I of Naples
Ferdinand I of Naples was a 15th-century monarch from the House of Trastámara who consolidated royal authority in southern Italy amid dynastic conflicts and foreign interventions.
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E.
Frederick III of Sicily
Frederick III of Sicily was a 13th–14th century king of Sicily from the House of Aragon who consolidated Aragonese rule on the island amid prolonged conflict with the Angevin dynasty and the papacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Capetian dynasty member
ⓘ
House of Anjou ⓘ human ⓘ king ⓘ monarch of Naples ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Carlo II d’Angiò
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles the Lame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1254-00-00 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Blanche of Anjou
NERFINISHED
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Charles Martel of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Eleanor of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ John of Gravina NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip I of Taranto NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Berengar of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Louis of Toulouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Tristan of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1309-05-05 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Charles I of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | Aragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Anjou-Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchOf |
Kingdom of Jerusalem
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Beatrice of Provence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Count of Forcalquier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Count of Provence NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Salerno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
consolidation of Angevin rule in southern Italy
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struggle for control of Sicily against Aragon ⓘ |
| participatedIn | War of the Sicilian Vespers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Count of Forcalquier
NERFINISHED
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Count of Provence NERFINISHED ⓘ King of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ King of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Salerno NERFINISHED ⓘ Titular King of Sicily ⓘ |
| predecessor | Charles I of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1309-05-05 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1285-00-00 ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary of Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Robert of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasPrisonerOf | Crown of Aragon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Charles II of Naples Description of subject: Charles II of Naples was a late 13th- and early 14th-century Angevin king of Naples who struggled to maintain his dynasty’s rule in southern Italy and over contested Mediterranean territories.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.