Geoffrey the Handsome
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Geoffrey the Handsome was a 12th-century Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, notable as the husband of Empress Matilda and the father of King Henry II of England, founding the Plantagenet dynasty.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geoffrey the Fair | 1 |
| Geoffrey the Handsome canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5500703 — 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: Geoffrey the Handsome Context triple: [Geoffrey V Plantagenet, alsoKnownAs, Geoffrey the Handsome]
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Geoffrey
Geoffrey is a masculine given name of English origin, famously borne by pioneering computer scientist and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton.
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B.
Robert of Arbrissel
Robert of Arbrissel was an 11th–12th century French itinerant preacher and reformer best known for founding the double monastery of Fontevraud and promoting radical ideals of poverty and mixed-gender religious life.
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C.
Stephen of Blois
Stephen of Blois was a 12th-century King of England whose contested reign against Empress Matilda led to a period of civil war known as The Anarchy.
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D.
Raoul d’Harcourt
Raoul d’Harcourt was a French nobleman and ecclesiastic of the influential Harcourt family, known for his role in founding the medieval Collège d’Harcourt in Paris.
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E.
Gaston de Blondeville
Gaston de Blondeville is a historical Gothic romance novel by Ann Radcliffe, set in medieval England and blending chivalric adventure with supernatural elements.
- 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: Geoffrey the Handsome Target entity description: Geoffrey the Handsome was a 12th-century Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, notable as the husband of Empress Matilda and the father of King Henry II of England, founding the Plantagenet dynasty.
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A.
Geoffrey
Geoffrey is a masculine given name of English origin, famously borne by pioneering computer scientist and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton.
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B.
Robert of Arbrissel
Robert of Arbrissel was an 11th–12th century French itinerant preacher and reformer best known for founding the double monastery of Fontevraud and promoting radical ideals of poverty and mixed-gender religious life.
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C.
Stephen of Blois
Stephen of Blois was a 12th-century King of England whose contested reign against Empress Matilda led to a period of civil war known as The Anarchy.
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D.
Raoul d’Harcourt
Raoul d’Harcourt was a French nobleman and ecclesiastic of the influential Harcourt family, known for his role in founding the medieval Collège d’Harcourt in Paris.
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E.
Gaston de Blondeville
Gaston de Blondeville is a historical Gothic romance novel by Ann Radcliffe, set in medieval England and blending chivalric adventure with supernatural elements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Count of Anjou
ⓘ
Duke of Normandy ⓘ founder of dynasty ⓘ human ⓘ medieval noble ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Geoffrey Plantagenet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geoffrey V of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Geoffrey le Bel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Angevin Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1113 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Le Mans Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Geoffrey VI, Count of Nantes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ William, Count of Poitou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsFeature | sprig of broom (planta genista) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | County of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1151-09-07 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Château-du-Loir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Plantagenet dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 12th century ⓘ |
| father | Fulk V of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 1128 ⓘ |
| mother | Ermengarde of Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fathering Henry II of England
ⓘ
founding the Plantagenet line of English kings ⓘ marriage to Empress Matilda ⓘ rule over Anjou, Maine, and Normandy ⓘ |
| politicalRole |
feudal lord
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vassal of the King of France ⓘ |
| predecessorAsCountOfAnjou | Fulk V of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Anjou
NERFINISHED
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Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignAsCountOfAnjouEnd | 1151 ⓘ |
| reignAsCountOfAnjouStart | 1129 ⓘ |
| reignAsDukeOfNormandyEnd | 1150 ⓘ |
| reignAsDukeOfNormandyStart | 1144 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Empress Matilda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseTitle |
Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
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Lady of the English ⓘ |
| successorAsCountOfAnjou | Henry II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
Count of Anjou
NERFINISHED
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Count of Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke of Normandy 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: Geoffrey the Handsome Description of subject: Geoffrey the Handsome was a 12th-century Count of Anjou and Duke of Normandy, notable as the husband of Empress Matilda and the father of King Henry II of England, founding the Plantagenet dynasty.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Geoffrey the Fair