Thankmar
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Thankmar was a 10th-century German nobleman and the eldest son of King Henry the Fowler, whose disputed legitimacy led to his rebellion against his half-brother Otto I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thankmar canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5047658 — 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: Thankmar Context triple: [Otto the Illustrious, child, Thankmar]
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A.
Adalwolf
Adalwolf is a Germanic given name meaning "noble wolf," from which the name Adolf is derived.
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B.
Willigis
Willigis was a powerful 10th-century German churchman and statesman who rose from humble origins to become one of the most influential political and ecclesiastical figures of the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
Tacenwit
Tacenwit is an alternative name for the Shenwa language, a Zenati Berber language spoken in northern Algeria.
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D.
Wulfram
Wulfram is an alternative spelling or variant form of the name Wolfram, which is associated with both a given name and the chemical element tungsten.
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E.
Widukind
Widukind was a prominent Saxon noble and military leader who spearheaded resistance against Charlemagne’s Frankish expansion and Christianization in the late 8th century.
- 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: Thankmar Target entity description: Thankmar was a 10th-century German nobleman and the eldest son of King Henry the Fowler, whose disputed legitimacy led to his rebellion against his half-brother Otto I.
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A.
Adalwolf
Adalwolf is a Germanic given name meaning "noble wolf," from which the name Adolf is derived.
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B.
Willigis
Willigis was a powerful 10th-century German churchman and statesman who rose from humble origins to become one of the most influential political and ecclesiastical figures of the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
Tacenwit
Tacenwit is an alternative name for the Shenwa language, a Zenati Berber language spoken in northern Algeria.
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D.
Wulfram
Wulfram is an alternative spelling or variant form of the name Wolfram, which is associated with both a given name and the chemical element tungsten.
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E.
Widukind
Widukind was a prominent Saxon noble and military leader who spearheaded resistance against Charlemagne’s Frankish expansion and Christianization in the late 8th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German nobleman
ⓘ
medieval noble ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| allegiance | Saxon nobility ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Eresburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| centuryOfBirth | 10th century ⓘ |
| centuryOfDeath | 10th century ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | East Francia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | German ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 908 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 938 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Widukind of Corvey’s Res gestae Saxonicae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
medieval German chronicles ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Saxon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Henry the Fowler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thankmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCause |
disputed legitimacy
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succession dispute ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | German royal succession crisis of 938 ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old High German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in rebellion ⓘ |
| mother | Hatheburg of Merseburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Ottonian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | rebellion against Otto I ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Thankmar’s rebellion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
uprisings against Otto I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Eresburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Count ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Brun, Archbishop of Cologne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry I, Duke of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | eldest son of Henry the Fowler ⓘ |
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: Thankmar Description of subject: Thankmar was a 10th-century German nobleman and the eldest son of King Henry the Fowler, whose disputed legitimacy led to his rebellion against his half-brother Otto I.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.