Karl der Dicke
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Karl der Dicke, known in English as Charles the Fat, was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor who briefly reunited much of the Frankish Empire before being deposed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl der Dicke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9871496 — 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: Karl der Dicke Context triple: [Charles the Fat, alsoKnownAs, Karl der Dicke]
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A.
Ludwig der Deutsche
Ludwig der Deutsche was a 9th-century East Frankish king and grandson of Charlemagne who played a key role in the formation of the German kingdom.
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B.
Lothar the Lame
Lothar the Lame was a lesser-known Frankish prince of the 9th century, notable mainly as a physically disabled son of the West Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald.
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C.
Lothar
Lothar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically borne by various European nobles, military figures, and notable individuals.
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D.
Charlemagne Péralte
Charlemagne Péralte was a Haitian nationalist leader who organized armed resistance against the U.S. occupation of Haiti in the early 20th century and became a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle.
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E.
Christian the Good
Christian the Good is an alternate name for Christian II of Denmark, the early 16th-century king known for his turbulent reign over Denmark, Norway, and briefly Sweden, and for his eventual deposition and long exile.
- 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: Karl der Dicke Target entity description: Karl der Dicke, known in English as Charles the Fat, was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor who briefly reunited much of the Frankish Empire before being deposed.
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A.
Ludwig der Deutsche
Ludwig der Deutsche was a 9th-century East Frankish king and grandson of Charlemagne who played a key role in the formation of the German kingdom.
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B.
Lothar the Lame
Lothar the Lame was a lesser-known Frankish prince of the 9th century, notable mainly as a physically disabled son of the West Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald.
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C.
Lothar
Lothar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically borne by various European nobles, military figures, and notable individuals.
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D.
Charlemagne Péralte
Charlemagne Péralte was a Haitian nationalist leader who organized armed resistance against the U.S. occupation of Haiti in the early 20th century and became a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle.
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E.
Christian the Good
Christian the Good is an alternate name for Christian II of Denmark, the early 16th-century king known for his turbulent reign over Denmark, Norway, and briefly Sweden, and for his eventual deposition and long exile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Karl der Dicke Description of subject: Karl der Dicke, known in English as Charles the Fat, was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor who briefly reunited much of the Frankish Empire before being deposed.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.