Herluin de Conteville
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Herluin de Conteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman best known as the second husband of Herleva of Falaise and stepfather to William the Conqueror.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herluin de Conteville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4727289 — 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: Herluin de Conteville Context triple: [Herleva of Falaise, spouse, Herluin de Conteville]
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A.
Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a 12th-century French poet widely regarded as a founding figure of Arthurian romance literature, known for shaping key legends of King Arthur and his knights.
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B.
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach was a medieval German knight and poet best known for his epic Arthurian romance "Parzival," a foundational work of Middle High German literature.
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C.
Raymond of Poitiers
Raymond of Poitiers was a 12th-century French nobleman who became Prince of Antioch during the Crusades and played a key role in the politics and warfare of the Latin East.
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D.
Goodwin Knight
Goodwin Knight was an American Republican politician who served as the 31st governor of California in the 1950s.
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E.
Wace
Wace was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman poet and chronicler best known for his verse histories of the Norman dukes and the legends of King Arthur.
- 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: Herluin de Conteville Target entity description: Herluin de Conteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman best known as the second husband of Herleva of Falaise and stepfather to William the Conqueror.
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A.
Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a 12th-century French poet widely regarded as a founding figure of Arthurian romance literature, known for shaping key legends of King Arthur and his knights.
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B.
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach was a medieval German knight and poet best known for his epic Arthurian romance "Parzival," a foundational work of Middle High German literature.
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C.
Raymond of Poitiers
Raymond of Poitiers was a 12th-century French nobleman who became Prince of Antioch during the Crusades and played a key role in the politics and warfare of the Latin East.
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D.
Goodwin Knight
Goodwin Knight was an American Republican politician who served as the 31st governor of California in the 1950s.
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E.
Wace
Wace was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman poet and chronicler best known for his verse histories of the Norman dukes and the legends of King Arthur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
11th-century person
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Norman nobleman ⓘ medieval French noble ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Norman Conquest of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Emma de Conteville
NERFINISHED
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Muriel de Conteville NERFINISHED ⓘ Odo of Bayeux NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert, Count of Mortain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Duchy of Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 11th century ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 11th century ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Grestain Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | pre-Conquest England era ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being father of Odo of Bayeux and Robert of Mortain
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being stepfather of William the Conqueror ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Latin ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| motherTongue | Old Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Conteville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Viscount of Conteville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Odo of Bayeux
NERFINISHED
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Robert, Count of Mortain NERFINISHED ⓘ William the Conqueror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Grestain Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Conteville, Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Viscount of Conteville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
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| residence | Conteville, Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frederuna (disputed)
NERFINISHED
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Herleva of Falaise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepchild | William the Conqueror 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: Herluin de Conteville Description of subject: Herluin de Conteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman best known as the second husband of Herleva of Falaise and stepfather to William the Conqueror.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.