Erwig
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Erwig was a 7th-century Visigothic king of Hispania and Septimania known for his legal reforms and religious policies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erwig canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10164333 — 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: Erwig Context triple: [Wamba, successor, Erwig]
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A.
Merovech
Merovech is the semi-legendary Frankish leader regarded as the ancestral founder of the Merovingian royal dynasty in early medieval Gaul.
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B.
Ingenried
Ingenried is a small rural municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district of Bavaria in southern Germany.
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C.
Wulfram
Wulfram is an alternative spelling or variant form of the name Wolfram, which is associated with both a given name and the chemical element tungsten.
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D.
Elfwine
Elfwine is a fictional prince of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as the son and heir of King Éomer.
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E.
Reginherus
Reginherus is a Germanic personal name, historically related to and cognate with the legendary Norse name Ragnar.
- 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: Erwig Target entity description: Erwig was a 7th-century Visigothic king of Hispania and Septimania known for his legal reforms and religious policies.
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A.
Merovech
Merovech is the semi-legendary Frankish leader regarded as the ancestral founder of the Merovingian royal dynasty in early medieval Gaul.
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B.
Ingenried
Ingenried is a small rural municipality in the Weilheim-Schongau district of Bavaria in southern Germany.
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C.
Wulfram
Wulfram is an alternative spelling or variant form of the name Wolfram, which is associated with both a given name and the chemical element tungsten.
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D.
Elfwine
Elfwine is a fictional prince of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as the son and heir of King Éomer.
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E.
Reginherus
Reginherus is a Germanic personal name, historically related to and cognate with the legendary Norse name Ragnar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Visigothic king
ⓘ
human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ervig
ⓘ
Ervigius ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 7th century ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Toledo (probable)
ⓘ
linked to:
Toledo
|
| cameToPowerBy | deposition of Wamba ⓘ |
| capitalOfRealm | Toledo ⓘ |
| centuryOfRule | 7th century ⓘ |
| convened |
Fourteenth Council of Toledo
ⓘ
linked to:
Council of Toledo
Thirteenth Council of Toledo ⓘ
linked to:
Council of Toledo
Twelfth Council of Toledo ⓘ
linked to:
Council of Toledo
|
| deathDate | 15 November 687 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Toledo
ⓘ
Visigothic Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathYear | 687 ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Visigothic monarchy
ⓘ
linked to:
Visigothic Kingdom
|
| ethnicity | Visigothic ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Chindasuinth ⓘ |
| givenName | Erwig ⓘ |
| healthStatusAtAccession | allegedly ill ⓘ |
| issued | laws against Jews ⓘ |
| kingOf |
Hispania
ⓘ
linked to:
Hispania (probable)
Septimania ⓘ
linked to:
Languedoc
Visigoths ⓘ
linked to:
Goths
|
| knownFor |
anti-Jewish legislation
ⓘ
legal reforms ⓘ religious policies ⓘ revisions of the Liber Iudiciorum ⓘ |
| languageOfCourt | Latin ⓘ |
| legalCode | Liber Iudiciorum ⓘ |
| policyFocus |
church–crown cooperation
ⓘ
strengthening royal authority ⓘ |
| predecessor | Wamba ⓘ |
| promulgated | revised Visigothic law code ⓘ |
| realm | Visigothic Kingdom ⓘ |
| reignEndYear | 687 ⓘ |
| reignPeriod | 680–687 ⓘ |
| reignStartYear | 680 ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Recceswinth ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| soughtTo | legitimize his accession ⓘ |
| spouse | Liuvigoto ⓘ |
| style | King of the Visigoths ⓘ |
| successor | Egica ⓘ |
| supported |
Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Catholic Church worldwide
|
| territoryIncluded |
Septimania in southern Gaul
ⓘ
most of the Iberian Peninsula ⓘ |
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: Erwig Description of subject: Erwig was a 7th-century Visigothic king of Hispania and Septimania known for his legal reforms and religious policies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.