Duke of Anjou
E511486
The Duke of Anjou was a prominent medieval French noble title associated with the powerful Angevin dynasty, whose holders played key roles in the politics and expansion of the French kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Anjou canonical | 20 |
| Duke of Anjou, 1434-1480 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5283881 — 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: Duke of Anjou Context triple: [House of Ingelger, heldTitle, Duke of Anjou]
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Louis, Duke of Anjou
Louis, Duke of Anjou was a 14th-century French prince of the House of Valois, brother of King Charles V of France, who played a major role in the politics of the Hundred Years’ War and held multiple high-ranking titles in the French nobility.
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Henri, Duke of Anjou
Henri, Duke of Anjou was a French royal prince who later became King Henry III of France and was a prominent military and political leader during the French Wars of Religion.
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Louis François, Duke of Anjou
Louis François, Duke of Anjou, was a short-lived French prince of the Bourbon dynasty, born to Louis XIV and Marie Thérèse of France.
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D.
Francis, Duke of Anjou
Francis, Duke of Anjou was a 16th-century French prince of the Valois dynasty, younger brother of King Charles IX, noted for his role in the French Wars of Religion and as a suitor to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
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Philippe, Duke of Anjou
Philippe, Duke of Anjou was a French prince of the Bourbon dynasty who later became King Philip V of Spain, founding the Spanish Bourbon royal line.
- 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: Duke of Anjou Target entity description: The Duke of Anjou was a prominent medieval French noble title associated with the powerful Angevin dynasty, whose holders played key roles in the politics and expansion of the French kingdom.
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A.
Louis, Duke of Anjou
Louis, Duke of Anjou was a 14th-century French prince of the House of Valois, brother of King Charles V of France, who played a major role in the politics of the Hundred Years’ War and held multiple high-ranking titles in the French nobility.
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B.
Henri, Duke of Anjou
Henri, Duke of Anjou was a French royal prince who later became King Henry III of France and was a prominent military and political leader during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
Louis François, Duke of Anjou
Louis François, Duke of Anjou, was a short-lived French prince of the Bourbon dynasty, born to Louis XIV and Marie Thérèse of France.
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D.
Francis, Duke of Anjou
Francis, Duke of Anjou was a 16th-century French prince of the Valois dynasty, younger brother of King Charles IX, noted for his role in the French Wars of Religion and as a suitor to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
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E.
Philippe, Duke of Anjou
Philippe, Duke of Anjou was a French prince of the Bourbon dynasty who later became King Philip V of Spain, founding the Spanish Bourbon royal line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French ducal title
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noble title ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Bourbon-Anjou
NERFINISHED
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Capetian House of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Valois House of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalOfFief | Angers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalDomain | Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grantedBy | King of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Ancien Régime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Angevin Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
French Wars of Religion NERFINISHED ⓘ Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| notableHolder |
Charles I of Anjou
NERFINISHED
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Charles IV of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis, Duke of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Fulk III of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Geoffrey Plantagenet NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Alphonse de Bourbon NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis I of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis II of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Stanislas Xavier (future Louis XVIII) NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip I, Duke of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip II, Duke of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip V of Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippe I, Duke of Orléans NERFINISHED ⓘ René of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French peerage ⓘ |
| politicalSignificance |
instrument of Capetian territorial expansion
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instrument of Valois foreign policy ⓘ key role in French royal succession disputes ⓘ |
| region | Loire Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionHistorically | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| successorTitle | Count of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHolderRole |
French prince
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feudal lord ⓘ |
| traditionalStyle | His Highness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAsCourtesyTitle | French royal family 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: Duke of Anjou Description of subject: The Duke of Anjou was a prominent medieval French noble title associated with the powerful Angevin dynasty, whose holders played key roles in the politics and expansion of the French kingdom.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Duke of Anjou, 1434-1480
subject surface form:
Jaime III of Spain