William of Valence
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William of Valence was a 13th-century French-born nobleman who became a powerful English royal favorite and Earl of Pembroke under King Henry III.
All labels observed (1)
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| William of Valence canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6672658 — 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 of Valence Context triple: [Aymer of Lusignan, sibling, William of Valence]
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Aymer de Valence
Aymer de Valence was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military commander who played a key role in Edward I and Edward II’s campaigns in Scotland during the early 14th century.
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William d'Aubigny
William d'Aubigny was a 13th-century English nobleman and rebel baron who played a prominent role in the conflicts against King John, including the events surrounding the siege of Rochester Castle.
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William Fitzer
William Fitzer was a 17th-century publisher and bookseller known for issuing significant scientific and scholarly works, including early editions of groundbreaking anatomical and medical texts.
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Henry de Montfort
Henry de Montfort was the eldest son of Simon de Montfort, a prominent supporter of the baronial cause against King Henry III during the Second Barons' War in 13th-century England.
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Hugh de Morville
Hugh de Morville was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and influential Scottish lord known for his role as Constable of Scotland and as one of the knights involved in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
- 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 of Valence Target entity description: William of Valence was a 13th-century French-born nobleman who became a powerful English royal favorite and Earl of Pembroke under King Henry III.
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A.
Aymer de Valence
Aymer de Valence was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military commander who played a key role in Edward I and Edward II’s campaigns in Scotland during the early 14th century.
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B.
William d'Aubigny
William d'Aubigny was a 13th-century English nobleman and rebel baron who played a prominent role in the conflicts against King John, including the events surrounding the siege of Rochester Castle.
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C.
William Fitzer
William Fitzer was a 17th-century publisher and bookseller known for issuing significant scientific and scholarly works, including early editions of groundbreaking anatomical and medical texts.
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D.
Henry de Montfort
Henry de Montfort was the eldest son of Simon de Montfort, a prominent supporter of the baronial cause against King Henry III during the Second Barons' War in 13th-century England.
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E.
Hugh de Morville
Hugh de Morville was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and influential Scottish lord known for his role as Constable of Scotland and as one of the knights involved in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 of Valence Description of subject: William of Valence was a 13th-century French-born nobleman who became a powerful English royal favorite and Earl of Pembroke under King Henry III.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.