James I of Cyprus
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James I of Cyprus was a 14th-century king of Cyprus and member of the French-origin Lusignan royal house who ruled the island during the era of the Crusader states’ decline.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James I of Cyprus canonical | 2 |
| King James I of Cyprus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5121614 — 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: James I of Cyprus Context triple: [Lusignan dynasty, notableMember, James I of Cyprus]
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Henry I of Cyprus
Henry I of Cyprus was a 13th-century king of Cyprus from the Lusignan dynasty who consolidated the island’s feudal monarchy and played a key role in the politics of the Crusader states.
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Peter I of Cyprus
Peter I of Cyprus was a 14th-century King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem and Armenia, known for his ambitious crusading campaigns against the Muslim-held Eastern Mediterranean.
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Hugh III of Cyprus
Hugh III of Cyprus was a 13th-century king of both Cyprus and Jerusalem from the Lusignan dynasty, known for his efforts to defend and administer the remaining Crusader states in the Levant.
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Hugh II of Cyprus
Hugh II of Cyprus was a 13th-century king of Cyprus and titular king of Jerusalem from the Lusignan dynasty who reigned as a child monarch under regency.
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Hugh XIV of Lusignan
Hugh XIV of Lusignan was a 14th-century French nobleman from the influential Lusignan dynasty who held multiple titles, including that of Count of La Marche and Angoulême, and played a role in the politics of medieval France.
- 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: James I of Cyprus Target entity description: James I of Cyprus was a 14th-century king of Cyprus and member of the French-origin Lusignan royal house who ruled the island during the era of the Crusader states’ decline.
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A.
Henry I of Cyprus
Henry I of Cyprus was a 13th-century king of Cyprus from the Lusignan dynasty who consolidated the island’s feudal monarchy and played a key role in the politics of the Crusader states.
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B.
Peter I of Cyprus
Peter I of Cyprus was a 14th-century King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem and Armenia, known for his ambitious crusading campaigns against the Muslim-held Eastern Mediterranean.
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C.
Hugh III of Cyprus
Hugh III of Cyprus was a 13th-century king of both Cyprus and Jerusalem from the Lusignan dynasty, known for his efforts to defend and administer the remaining Crusader states in the Levant.
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D.
Hugh II of Cyprus
Hugh II of Cyprus was a 13th-century king of Cyprus and titular king of Jerusalem from the Lusignan dynasty who reigned as a child monarch under regency.
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E.
Hugh XIV of Lusignan
Hugh XIV of Lusignan was a 14th-century French nobleman from the influential Lusignan dynasty who held multiple titles, including that of Count of La Marche and Angoulême, and played a role in the politics of medieval France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Cyprus
ⓘ
human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Crusader legacy in Cyprus
ⓘ
Eastern Mediterranean politics ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1334 ⓘ |
| capitalOfRealm | Nicosia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Euphemia of Lusignan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry of Lusignan NERFINISHED ⓘ Janus of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip of Lusignan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| claimedTitle |
King of Armenia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1398 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Nicosia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasticConnection | Ibelin family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| father | Hugh IV of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | Island of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseOrigin | French nobility ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | French ⓘ |
| languageOfRealm | Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Lusignan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Crusader state of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Alix of Ibelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Lusignan dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Prince of Antioch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | ruling Cyprus during the decline of the Crusader states ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Constable of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Peter II of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1398 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1382 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling |
John of Lusignan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter I of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Janus of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
King of Cyprus
NERFINISHED
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Titular King of Armenia ⓘ Titular King of Jerusalem ⓘ |
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: James I of Cyprus Description of subject: James I of Cyprus was a 14th-century king of Cyprus and member of the French-origin Lusignan royal house who ruled the island during the era of the Crusader states’ decline.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King James I of Cyprus