Henry II of England
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Henry II of England was a 12th-century Angevin king who restored royal authority after civil war, expanded his realms across much of France, and laid foundations for the English common law system.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry II of England canonical | 147 |
| Henry II | 3 |
| reign of Henry II of England | 3 |
| King Henry II | 2 |
| King Henry II of England | 2 |
| Henry II of England (court milieu) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T421590 — 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: Henry II of England Context triple: [Kingdom of England, notableMonarch, Henry II of England]
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Henry III of England
Henry III of England was a 13th-century Plantagenet king whose long and often turbulent reign was marked by baronial conflicts, administrative reforms, and the reaffirmation of royal obligations to the nobility and Church.
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B.
King John of England
King John of England was the early 13th-century English monarch whose reign was marked by military failures, heavy taxation, and baronial rebellion that led to the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215.
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C.
Edward I of England
Edward I of England was a 13th–14th century English king known for his military campaigns in Wales and Scotland, legal and administrative reforms, and consolidation of royal authority.
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D.
King Richard the Lionheart
King Richard the Lionheart was a 12th-century King of England renowned for his military leadership during the Third Crusade and celebrated in legend as a chivalrous warrior-king.
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E.
Edward III of England
Edward III of England was a 14th-century English king whose long reign was marked by military campaigns in the Hundred Years’ War, the strengthening of royal authority, and a flourishing of chivalric culture.
- 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: Henry II of England Target entity description: Henry II of England was a 12th-century Angevin king who restored royal authority after civil war, expanded his realms across much of France, and laid foundations for the English common law system.
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A.
Henry III of England
Henry III of England was a 13th-century Plantagenet king whose long and often turbulent reign was marked by baronial conflicts, administrative reforms, and the reaffirmation of royal obligations to the nobility and Church.
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B.
King John of England
King John of England was the early 13th-century English monarch whose reign was marked by military failures, heavy taxation, and baronial rebellion that led to the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215.
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C.
Edward I of England
Edward I of England was a 13th–14th century English king known for his military campaigns in Wales and Scotland, legal and administrative reforms, and consolidation of royal authority.
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D.
King Richard the Lionheart
King Richard the Lionheart was a 12th-century King of England renowned for his military leadership during the Third Crusade and celebrated in legend as a chivalrous warrior-king.
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E.
Edward III of England
Edward III of England was a 14th-century English king whose long reign was marked by military campaigns in the Hundred Years’ War, the strengthening of royal authority, and a flourishing of chivalric culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Henry II of England Description of subject: Henry II of England was a 12th-century Angevin king who restored royal authority after civil war, expanded his realms across much of France, and laid foundations for the English common law system.
Referenced by (158)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Beaumont Palace
subject surface form:
Beaumont Palace
subject surface form:
Richard I of England
subject surface form:
Richard I of England
subject surface form:
Orford Castle
this entity surface form:
Henry II
this entity surface form:
Henry II of England (court milieu)
this entity surface form:
Henry II
subject surface form:
Thomas Becket
subject surface form:
Thomas Becket
subject surface form:
Thomas Becket
subject surface form:
The Anarchy
subject surface form:
Round Tower (Windsor Castle)
this entity surface form:
King Henry II of England
subject surface form:
Fontevraud Abbey