Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire
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Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, also known as Empress Matilda, was a 12th-century English princess and claimant to the English throne whose contested succession sparked the civil war known as The Anarchy.
All labels observed (1)
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| Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5191718 — 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: Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire Context triple: [Maud, hasNotableBearer, Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire]
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A.
Maud of Lancaster, Duchess of Bavaria
Maud of Lancaster, Duchess of Bavaria, was a 14th-century English noblewoman of the powerful House of Lancaster who became duchess through marriage into the Bavarian ruling dynasty.
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B.
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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C.
Magdalene of Brandenburg
Magdalene of Brandenburg was a German noblewoman from the House of Hohenzollern who became Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt through marriage.
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D.
Brigitta of Palatinate-Simmern
Brigitta of Palatinate-Simmern was a noblewoman of the German princely House of Wittelsbach, belonging to its Palatinate-Simmern branch in the late medieval/early modern Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
Matilda of Habsburg
Matilda of Habsburg was a 13th-century Habsburg princess who became Duchess of Bavaria through her marriage to Louis II, Duke of Bavaria.
- 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: Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire Target entity description: Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, also known as Empress Matilda, was a 12th-century English princess and claimant to the English throne whose contested succession sparked the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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A.
Maud of Lancaster, Duchess of Bavaria
Maud of Lancaster, Duchess of Bavaria, was a 14th-century English noblewoman of the powerful House of Lancaster who became duchess through marriage into the Bavarian ruling dynasty.
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B.
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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C.
Magdalene of Brandenburg
Magdalene of Brandenburg was a German noblewoman from the House of Hohenzollern who became Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt through marriage.
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D.
Brigitta of Palatinate-Simmern
Brigitta of Palatinate-Simmern was a noblewoman of the German princely House of Wittelsbach, belonging to its Palatinate-Simmern branch in the late medieval/early modern Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
Matilda of Habsburg
Matilda of Habsburg was a 13th-century Habsburg princess who became Duchess of Bavaria through her marriage to Louis II, Duke of Bavaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire Description of subject: Maud, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, also known as Empress Matilda, was a 12th-century English princess and claimant to the English throne whose contested succession sparked the civil war known as The Anarchy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.