John III, Duke of Cleves
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John III, Duke of Cleves was a 16th-century German nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Cleves and was the father of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John III, Duke of Cleves canonical | 13 |
| John III, Duke of Cleves and Jülich-Berg | 2 |
| John III, Duke of Cleves, Jülich and Berg | 1 |
| John III, Duke of Cleves-Mark | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6574459 — 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: John III, Duke of Cleves Context triple: [Duke of Cleves, hasTitleHolder, John III, Duke of Cleves]
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John II, Duke of Cleves
John II, Duke of Cleves was a late 15th- and early 16th-century German nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Cleves and helped consolidate its regional power within the Holy Roman Empire.
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John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman and staunch Calvinist who played a key political and military role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt alongside his brother William the Silent.
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John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen was a German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Siegen in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Duke of Cleves
The Duke of Cleves was the sovereign ruler of the historic Duchy of Cleves in the Lower Rhine region, a title held by several prominent German princes within the Holy Roman Empire.
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William of Nassau-Siegen
William of Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German nobleman and military commander from the House of Nassau who served prominently in European conflicts of his time.
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- 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: John III, Duke of Cleves Target entity description: John III, Duke of Cleves was a 16th-century German nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Cleves and was the father of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
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A.
John II, Duke of Cleves
John II, Duke of Cleves was a late 15th- and early 16th-century German nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Cleves and helped consolidate its regional power within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg was a 16th-century German nobleman and staunch Calvinist who played a key political and military role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt alongside his brother William the Silent.
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C.
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen
John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen was a German nobleman of the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Siegen in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Duke of Cleves
The Duke of Cleves was the sovereign ruler of the historic Duchy of Cleves in the Lower Rhine region, a title held by several prominent German princes within the Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
William of Nassau-Siegen
William of Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German nobleman and military commander from the House of Nassau who served prominently in European conflicts of his time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: John III, Duke of Cleves Description of subject: John III, Duke of Cleves was a 16th-century German nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Cleves and was the father of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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