Sigeric
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Sigeric was a short-lived early 5th-century Visigothic king known for briefly succeeding Alaric I before being replaced by Wallia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sigeric canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10164014 — 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: Sigeric Context triple: [Wallia, predecessor, Sigeric]
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A.
Oesbern
Oesbern is a suburban district of the town of Menden in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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B.
Guthrum
Guthrum was a 9th-century Danish Viking leader and king of the Danelaw, best known for his conflicts with Alfred the Great and his eventual conversion to Christianity.
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C.
Sweyn Forkbeard
Sweyn Forkbeard was a Viking king of Denmark, Norway, and briefly England, known for overthrowing his father Harald Bluetooth and launching major raids and conquests in the British Isles.
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D.
Harald
Harald is a common Scandinavian male given name, historically borne by several notable kings and figures in Norse and European history.
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E.
Harold Bluetooth
Harold Bluetooth was a 10th-century king of Denmark and Norway known for uniting much of Scandinavia and for inspiring the name of the modern Bluetooth wireless technology standard.
- 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: Sigeric Target entity description: Sigeric was a short-lived early 5th-century Visigothic king known for briefly succeeding Alaric I before being replaced by Wallia.
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A.
Oesbern
Oesbern is a suburban district of the town of Menden in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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B.
Guthrum
Guthrum was a 9th-century Danish Viking leader and king of the Danelaw, best known for his conflicts with Alfred the Great and his eventual conversion to Christianity.
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C.
Sweyn Forkbeard
Sweyn Forkbeard was a Viking king of Denmark, Norway, and briefly England, known for overthrowing his father Harald Bluetooth and launching major raids and conquests in the British Isles.
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D.
Harald
Harald is a common Scandinavian male given name, historically borne by several notable kings and figures in Norse and European history.
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E.
Harold Bluetooth
Harold Bluetooth was a 10th-century king of Denmark and Norway known for uniting much of Scandinavia and for inspiring the name of the modern Bluetooth wireless technology standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Visigothic king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ |
| action | murdered relatives of Alaric I ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | power struggle within the Visigothic leadership ⓘ |
| causeOfDownfall | opposition from Visigothic nobility ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 5th century ⓘ |
| conflict | late phase of the Visigothic–Roman conflicts ⓘ |
| country | Visigothic Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 410 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Visigoth ⓘ |
| historicalContext | aftermath of the Sack of Rome in 410 ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Gothic ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| nameVariant | Sigericus ⓘ |
| notableFor |
brief reign as Visigothic king
ⓘ
succession crisis after Alaric I ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | usurper king to some contemporaries ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of the Visigoths ⓘ |
| predecessor | Alaric I ⓘ |
| reignDuration | about seven days ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 410 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 410 ⓘ |
| relativePositionInSuccession | immediate successor of Alaric I ⓘ |
| religion |
Arian Christianity
ⓘ
linked to:
Arianism
|
| source | recorded by Olympiodorus of Thebes ⓘ |
| spouse | widow of Alaric I ⓘ |
| successor | Wallia ⓘ |
| title | Rex Visigothorum ⓘ |
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: Sigeric Description of subject: Sigeric was a short-lived early 5th-century Visigothic king known for briefly succeeding Alaric I before being replaced by Wallia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.