Sigismund I the Old
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Sigismund I the Old was a 16th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania whose long reign strengthened the Polish-Lithuanian state and fostered Renaissance culture.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sigismund I the Old canonical | 22 |
| Zygmunt I Stary | 2 |
| Sigismund I the Old as Grand Duke of Lithuania | 1 |
| Sigismund I the Old as King of Poland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T651135 — 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: Sigismund I the Old Context triple: [Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period, hasNotableRuler, Sigismund I the Old]
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A.
Sigismund III Vasa
Sigismund III Vasa was a late 16th–early 17th century monarch who ruled both the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, whose dynastic and religious ambitions helped fuel major conflicts in Eastern Europe.
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B.
Władysław IV Vasa
Władysław IV Vasa was a 17th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from the Vasa dynasty, noted for his military leadership, cultural patronage, and involvement in Eastern European conflicts including Russia’s Time of Troubles.
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C.
Duke Bolesław V the Chaste
Duke Bolesław V the Chaste was a 13th-century Polish Piast ruler of Kraków and Sandomierz, noted for his childless marriage, political struggles with neighboring dukes, and efforts to strengthen and develop his domains.
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D.
Mikołaj Zebrzydowski
Mikołaj Zebrzydowski was a Polish nobleman and magnate best known for founding the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska pilgrimage complex and for leading the Zebrzydowski Rebellion against King Sigismund III Vasa in the early 17th century.
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E.
Leszek II the Black
Leszek II the Black was a 13th-century Piast duke of Kraków and Sieradz who played a key role in defending Polish territories during the Mongol invasions of 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: Sigismund I the Old Target entity description: Sigismund I the Old was a 16th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania whose long reign strengthened the Polish-Lithuanian state and fostered Renaissance culture.
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A.
Sigismund III Vasa
Sigismund III Vasa was a late 16th–early 17th century monarch who ruled both the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, whose dynastic and religious ambitions helped fuel major conflicts in Eastern Europe.
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B.
Władysław IV Vasa
Władysław IV Vasa was a 17th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from the Vasa dynasty, noted for his military leadership, cultural patronage, and involvement in Eastern European conflicts including Russia’s Time of Troubles.
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C.
Duke Bolesław V the Chaste
Duke Bolesław V the Chaste was a 13th-century Polish Piast ruler of Kraków and Sandomierz, noted for his childless marriage, political struggles with neighboring dukes, and efforts to strengthen and develop his domains.
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D.
Mikołaj Zebrzydowski
Mikołaj Zebrzydowski was a Polish nobleman and magnate best known for founding the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska pilgrimage complex and for leading the Zebrzydowski Rebellion against King Sigismund III Vasa in the early 17th century.
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E.
Leszek II the Black
Leszek II the Black was a 13th-century Piast duke of Kraków and Sieradz who played a key role in defending Polish territories during the Mongol invasions of Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sigismund I the Old Description of subject: Sigismund I the Old was a 16th-century King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania whose long reign strengthened the Polish-Lithuanian state and fostered Renaissance culture.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zygmunt I Stary
this entity surface form:
Sigismund I the Old as Grand Duke of Lithuania
this entity surface form:
Sigismund I the Old as King of Poland
this entity surface form:
Zygmunt I Stary