Charles of Blois
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Charles of Blois was a 14th-century French nobleman and claimant to the Duchy of Brittany, known for his role in the Breton War of Succession and later venerated as a saintly figure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles of Blois canonical | 21 |
| Charles of Blois (the younger) | 1 |
| Charles of Blois, Duke of Brittany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6090787 — 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: Charles of Blois Context triple: [Edwardian War, hasNotableLeader, Charles of Blois]
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William of Blois
William of Blois was a 12th-century English nobleman, son of King Stephen of England, who held the titles of Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey.
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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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Geoffrey I of Anjou
Geoffrey I of Anjou was a 10th–11th century Count of Anjou who consolidated his family's power in western France and laid foundations for the later prominence of the Angevin dynasty.
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Richard I, Duke of Normandy
Richard I, Duke of Normandy was a 10th-century Norman ruler who consolidated and expanded the power of the Norman duchy in northern France and laid the foundations for its future prominence in European politics.
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Fulk I of Anjou
Fulk I of Anjou was a 10th-century French nobleman who became the first hereditary Count of Anjou and founder of the Angevin dynasty’s power.
- 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: Charles of Blois Target entity description: Charles of Blois was a 14th-century French nobleman and claimant to the Duchy of Brittany, known for his role in the Breton War of Succession and later venerated as a saintly figure.
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A.
William of Blois
William of Blois was a 12th-century English nobleman, son of King Stephen of England, who held the titles of Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey.
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B.
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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C.
Geoffrey I of Anjou
Geoffrey I of Anjou was a 10th–11th century Count of Anjou who consolidated his family's power in western France and laid foundations for the later prominence of the Angevin dynasty.
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D.
Richard I, Duke of Normandy
Richard I, Duke of Normandy was a 10th-century Norman ruler who consolidated and expanded the power of the Norman duchy in northern France and laid the foundations for its future prominence in European politics.
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E.
Fulk I of Anjou
Fulk I of Anjou was a 10th-century French nobleman who became the first hereditary Count of Anjou and founder of the Angevin dynasty’s power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Charles of Blois Description of subject: Charles of Blois was a 14th-century French nobleman and claimant to the Duchy of Brittany, known for his role in the Breton War of Succession and later venerated as a saintly figure.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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