William the Bad
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William the Bad was a 12th-century Norman king of Sicily known for his unpopular rule, internal strife, and conflicts with the papacy and neighboring powers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William the Bad canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5406209 — 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: William the Bad Context triple: [William I of Sicily, nickname, William the Bad]
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A.
William the Red
William the Red was the Norman king of England from 1087 to 1100, known for his military campaigns, conflicts with the Church, and mysterious death while hunting in the New Forest.
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B.
Henry the Suffering
Henry the Suffering was Henry III of Castile, a late 14th- and early 15th-century king of Castile and León known for his poor health and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
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C.
Charles the Rash
Charles the Rash was the 15th-century ruler of Burgundy known for his ambitious expansionist policies and his death in battle, which led to the fragmentation of the Burgundian state.
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D.
Bob Ducsay
Bob Ducsay is a film editor and producer known for his work on genre films and collaborations with directors like Rian Johnson and Stephen Sommers.
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E.
Falkes de Bréauté
Falkes de Bréauté was an Anglo-Norman soldier and royalist mercenary captain who rose from obscure origins to become a prominent military commander and enforcer for King John and the minority government of Henry III.
- 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: William the Bad Target entity description: William the Bad was a 12th-century Norman king of Sicily known for his unpopular rule, internal strife, and conflicts with the papacy and neighboring powers.
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A.
William the Red
William the Red was the Norman king of England from 1087 to 1100, known for his military campaigns, conflicts with the Church, and mysterious death while hunting in the New Forest.
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B.
Henry the Suffering
Henry the Suffering was Henry III of Castile, a late 14th- and early 15th-century king of Castile and León known for his poor health and efforts to strengthen royal authority.
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C.
Charles the Rash
Charles the Rash was the 15th-century ruler of Burgundy known for his ambitious expansionist policies and his death in battle, which led to the fragmentation of the Burgundian state.
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D.
Bob Ducsay
Bob Ducsay is a film editor and producer known for his work on genre films and collaborations with directors like Rian Johnson and Stephen Sommers.
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E.
Falkes de Bréauté
Falkes de Bréauté was an Anglo-Norman soldier and royalist mercenary captain who rose from obscure origins to become a prominent military commander and enforcer for King John and the minority government of Henry III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Sicily
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Norman ruler ⓘ human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Guglielmo il Malo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guillaume le Mauvais NERFINISHED ⓘ William I of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cathedral of Palermo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Palermo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Henry, Prince of Capua
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roger IV, Duke of Apulia NERFINISHED ⓘ William II of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
conflicts with Italian maritime republics
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conflicts with the Papacy ⓘ wars with the Byzantine Empire ⓘ wars with the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1131 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1166 ⓘ |
| era | 12th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Normans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Roger II of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conflicts with neighboring powers
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conflicts with the papacy ⓘ internal strife in the Kingdom of Sicily ⓘ unpopular rule ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Latin
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Norman French NERFINISHED ⓘ Sicilian ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Kingdom of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Elvira of Castile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Hauteville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Baronial revolts in the Kingdom of Sicily
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Revolt of Bari (1156) NERFINISHED ⓘ Treaty of Benevento (1156) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope Adrian IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Palermo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palermo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Roger II of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1166 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1154 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| signed | Treaty of Benevento NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret of Navarre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | William II of Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William the Bad Description of subject: William the Bad was a 12th-century Norman king of Sicily known for his unpopular rule, internal strife, and conflicts with the papacy and neighboring powers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.