Simon of Valois
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Simon of Valois was a lesser-known medieval French nobleman of the Capetian dynasty, notable primarily as a son of Robert the Old, Count of Burgundy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon of Valois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9035398 — 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: Simon of Valois Context triple: [Robert the Old, child, Simon of Valois]
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Charles of Valois
Charles of Valois was a French prince and military leader, son of King Philip III of France, who played a prominent role in late 13th- and early 14th-century European dynastic and military conflicts.
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Philip of Valois
Philip of Valois was the first king of France from the House of Valois, whose disputed claim to the throne helped spark the Hundred Years' War.
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Henry of Valois
Henry of Valois, better known as Henry III of France, was a 16th-century French monarch who reigned as both King of Poland-Lithuania and later King of France, becoming the last king from the Valois dynasty.
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D.
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Louis I, Duke of Orléans was a French prince of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, younger brother of King Charles VI, whose political ambitions and assassination played a key role in the power struggles that led to the Armagnac–Burgundian civil war.
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Louis de France
Louis de France, known as the Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV of France who predeceased his father and never ascended the throne.
- 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: Simon of Valois Target entity description: Simon of Valois was a lesser-known medieval French nobleman of the Capetian dynasty, notable primarily as a son of Robert the Old, Count of Burgundy.
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A.
Charles of Valois
Charles of Valois was a French prince and military leader, son of King Philip III of France, who played a prominent role in late 13th- and early 14th-century European dynastic and military conflicts.
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B.
Philip of Valois
Philip of Valois was the first king of France from the House of Valois, whose disputed claim to the throne helped spark the Hundred Years' War.
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C.
Henry of Valois
Henry of Valois, better known as Henry III of France, was a 16th-century French monarch who reigned as both King of Poland-Lithuania and later King of France, becoming the last king from the Valois dynasty.
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D.
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Louis I, Duke of Orléans was a French prince of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, younger brother of King Charles VI, whose political ambitions and assassination played a key role in the power struggles that led to the Armagnac–Burgundian civil war.
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E.
Louis de France
Louis de France, known as the Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV of France who predeceased his father and never ascended the throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
medieval French nobleman
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member of the Capetian dynasty ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Capetian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | of Valois ⓘ |
| father | Robert I, Duke of Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old French ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Capetian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAs | son of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy ⓘ |
| partOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| positionHeld | French nobleman ⓘ |
| relative | Robert I, Duke of Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Simon of Valois Description of subject: Simon of Valois was a lesser-known medieval French nobleman of the Capetian dynasty, notable primarily as a son of Robert the Old, Count of Burgundy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.