Sigismund the Old
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Sigismund the Old was a 16th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from the Jagiellonian dynasty, noted for his role in strengthening the Polish-Lithuanian state and fostering the Renaissance in Poland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sigismund | 1 |
| Sigismund the Old canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3727767 — 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: Sigismund the Old Context triple: [Sigismund I the Old, alsoKnownAs, Sigismund the Old]
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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor was a late medieval ruler who served as King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Germany, King of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor, playing a central role in European politics and church affairs, including the Council of Constance.
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John I Albert
John I Albert was a late 15th-century King of Poland from the Jagiellonian dynasty, known for his military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
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C.
Wenceslaus of Austria
Wenceslaus of Austria was a Habsburg archduke and son of Empress Maria of Austria, known primarily for his role within the dynastic politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
Albert II of Bohemia
Albert II of Bohemia was a 15th-century Habsburg ruler who briefly reigned as King of the Romans, Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, playing a key role in Central European politics before his early death.
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E.
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I of Hungary was a 14th-century Angevin monarch who significantly expanded Hungarian influence in Central and Eastern Europe and also ruled as King of Poland.
- 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: Sigismund the Old Target entity description: Sigismund the Old was a 16th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from the Jagiellonian dynasty, noted for his role in strengthening the Polish-Lithuanian state and fostering the Renaissance in Poland.
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A.
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor was a late medieval ruler who served as King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Germany, King of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor, playing a central role in European politics and church affairs, including the Council of Constance.
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B.
John I Albert
John I Albert was a late 15th-century King of Poland from the Jagiellonian dynasty, known for his military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
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C.
Wenceslaus of Austria
Wenceslaus of Austria was a Habsburg archduke and son of Empress Maria of Austria, known primarily for his role within the dynastic politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
Albert II of Bohemia
Albert II of Bohemia was a 15th-century Habsburg ruler who briefly reigned as King of the Romans, Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, playing a key role in Central European politics before his early death.
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E.
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I of Hungary was a 14th-century Angevin monarch who significantly expanded Hungarian influence in Central and Eastern Europe and also ruled as King of Poland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sigismund the Old Description of subject: Sigismund the Old was a 16th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from the Jagiellonian dynasty, noted for his role in strengthening the Polish-Lithuanian state and fostering the Renaissance in Poland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sigismund the Old