Margrave of Namur
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The Margrave of Namur was a medieval noble title in the Low Countries, denoting the ruler of the frontier principality of Namur within the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margrave of Namur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9245876 — 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: Margrave of Namur Context triple: [Philip the Good, positionHeld, Margrave of Namur]
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A.
Ferrand, Count of Flanders
Ferrand, Count of Flanders was a prominent early 13th-century nobleman who ruled Flanders and Hainaut and became notable for his opposition to King Philip II of France, culminating in his defeat and capture at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.
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B.
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain was a prominent early 12th-century nobleman in the Low Countries, notable as a powerful regional ruler and the father of Adeliza of Louvain, queen consort of England.
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C.
Philippe, Count of Flanders
Philippe, Count of Flanders was a 19th-century Belgian prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who played a prominent political and dynastic role in early Belgian history.
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D.
Baldwin of Flanders
Baldwin of Flanders was a prominent medieval nobleman who became the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople after the Fourth Crusade.
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E.
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders was a powerful early 10th-century Frankish nobleman who expanded and consolidated the County of Flanders into a significant principality in northwest Europe.
- 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: Margrave of Namur Target entity description: The Margrave of Namur was a medieval noble title in the Low Countries, denoting the ruler of the frontier principality of Namur within the Holy Roman Empire.
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A.
Ferrand, Count of Flanders
Ferrand, Count of Flanders was a prominent early 13th-century nobleman who ruled Flanders and Hainaut and became notable for his opposition to King Philip II of France, culminating in his defeat and capture at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.
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B.
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain was a prominent early 12th-century nobleman in the Low Countries, notable as a powerful regional ruler and the father of Adeliza of Louvain, queen consort of England.
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C.
Philippe, Count of Flanders
Philippe, Count of Flanders was a 19th-century Belgian prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who played a prominent political and dynastic role in early Belgian history.
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D.
Baldwin of Flanders
Baldwin of Flanders was a prominent medieval nobleman who became the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople after the Fourth Crusade.
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E.
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders was a powerful early 10th-century Frankish nobleman who expanded and consolidated the County of Flanders into a significant principality in northwest Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
margravial title
ⓘ
medieval title ⓘ noble title ⓘ |
| appliesToTerritory |
County of Namur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | County of Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Burgundian Netherlands
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Habsburg Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| followedBy | Burgundian ducal administration in Namur ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeLabel |
Markgrave of Namur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marquis de Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ Marquis of Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeudalRank | margrave ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | frontier territory on the Meuse ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Latin
ⓘ
Middle French NERFINISHED ⓘ Old French ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
feudal title
ⓘ
frontier principality title ⓘ hereditary title ⓘ |
| hasRank | prince of the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| hasReligiousContext | Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
frontier lord
ⓘ
ruler of Namur ⓘ |
| hasSovereign | Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleHolder |
House of Burgundy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Dampierre NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Habsburg NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Luxembourg NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isATypeOf |
feudal office
ⓘ
territorial lordship ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Low Countries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
present-day Belgium ⓘ |
| partOf |
Holy Roman Empire
ⓘ
Imperial Kingdom of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ nobility of the Low Countries ⓘ |
| positionHeldIn | County of Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Count of Namur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
imperial prince
ⓘ
margrave ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
High Middle Ages
ⓘ
Late Middle Ages ⓘ Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Margrave of Namur Description of subject: The Margrave of Namur was a medieval noble title in the Low Countries, denoting the ruler of the frontier principality of Namur within the Holy Roman Empire.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.