Maria of Jülich-Berg
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Maria of Jülich-Berg was a 16th-century German noblewoman and duchess whose dynastic marriage and offspring, including Anne of Cleves, linked the houses of Jülich-Berg and Cleves and influenced regional politics in the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maria of Jülich-Berg canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3569099 — 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: Maria of Jülich-Berg Context triple: [Anne of Cleves, mother, Maria of Jülich-Berg]
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Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg
Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, better known in English as Anne of Cleves, was the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England and a German noblewoman whose brief marriage helped shape Tudor diplomatic relations.
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Mary of Guelders
Mary of Guelders was a 15th-century queen consort of Scotland and later regent, noted for her political influence and patronage of religious and architectural projects.
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Maria of Simmern
Maria of Simmern was a 16th-century German noblewoman and princess from the Palatine branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
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D.
Johanna of Nassau-Dillenburg
Johanna of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman of the House of Nassau, known primarily as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a member of the extended family of William the Silent.
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E.
Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg
Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman from the influential House of Nassau, known as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a sister of William the Silent.
- 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: Maria of Jülich-Berg Target entity description: Maria of Jülich-Berg was a 16th-century German noblewoman and duchess whose dynastic marriage and offspring, including Anne of Cleves, linked the houses of Jülich-Berg and Cleves and influenced regional politics in the Holy Roman Empire.
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A.
Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg
Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, better known in English as Anne of Cleves, was the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England and a German noblewoman whose brief marriage helped shape Tudor diplomatic relations.
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B.
Mary of Guelders
Mary of Guelders was a 15th-century queen consort of Scotland and later regent, noted for her political influence and patronage of religious and architectural projects.
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C.
Maria of Simmern
Maria of Simmern was a 16th-century German noblewoman and princess from the Palatine branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
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D.
Johanna of Nassau-Dillenburg
Johanna of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman of the House of Nassau, known primarily as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a member of the extended family of William the Silent.
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E.
Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg
Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German noblewoman from the influential House of Nassau, known as one of the daughters of Juliana of Stolberg and a sister of William the Silent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century person
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German noble ⓘ duchess ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Duchy of Cleves
NERFINISHED
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Duchy of Jülich-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ Lower Rhine region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Amalia of Cleves
NERFINISHED
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Anne of Cleves NERFINISHED ⓘ Sibylla of Cleves NERFINISHED ⓘ William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1491-08-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1543-08-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| father | William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | early 16th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| mother | Sibylle of Brandenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Jülich-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being mother of Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England
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influencing regional politics in the Holy Roman Empire via dynastic alliances ⓘ linking the houses of Jülich-Berg and Cleves through marriage ⓘ |
| notableWork | dynastic union of Jülich-Berg and Cleves through marriage ⓘ |
| partOf |
House of La Marck
NERFINISHED
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nobility of the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jülich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rheinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Duchess of Cleves
NERFINISHED
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Duchess of Jülich-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Amalia of Cleves
NERFINISHED
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Anne of Cleves NERFINISHED ⓘ Sibylla of Cleves NERFINISHED ⓘ William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Cleves
NERFINISHED
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Duchy of Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ Duchy of Jülich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs | Maria von Jülich-Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
inheritance of the duchies of Jülich and Berg
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marriage to John III, Duke of Cleves ⓘ |
| spouse | John III, Duke of Cleves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Duchess of Berg
NERFINISHED
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Duchess of Cleves NERFINISHED ⓘ Duchess of Jülich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maria of Jülich-Berg Description of subject: Maria of Jülich-Berg was a 16th-century German noblewoman and duchess whose dynastic marriage and offspring, including Anne of Cleves, linked the houses of Jülich-Berg and Cleves and influenced regional politics in the Holy Roman Empire.
Referenced by (4)
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