John II, Duke of Lorraine
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John II, Duke of Lorraine was a late 15th- to early 16th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and participated in the Italian Wars as an ally of the French crown.
All labels observed (1)
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| John II, Duke of Lorraine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10278935 — 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: John II, Duke of Lorraine Context triple: [Duke of Lorraine, hasTitleHolder, John II, Duke of Lorraine]
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John I, Duke of Lorraine
John I, Duke of Lorraine was a 14th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a notable role in the political and military affairs of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire and France.
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René II, Duke of Lorraine
René II, Duke of Lorraine was a late 15th-century French noble best known for leading the forces that defeated Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy, helping to end Burgundian power in the region.
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Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine was a 16th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics and religious conflicts of his time.
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Charles of Lorraine
Charles of Lorraine was a 17th-century Habsburg general and nobleman best known for leading imperial forces against the Ottoman Empire and in the wars following the Battle of Vienna.
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Duke of Lorraine
The Duke of Lorraine was the sovereign ruler of the historic Duchy of Lorraine in northeastern France, a title held by several prominent European nobles including future emperors.
- 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: John II, Duke of Lorraine Target entity description: John II, Duke of Lorraine was a late 15th- to early 16th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and participated in the Italian Wars as an ally of the French crown.
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A.
John I, Duke of Lorraine
John I, Duke of Lorraine was a 14th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a notable role in the political and military affairs of the late medieval Holy Roman Empire and France.
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B.
René II, Duke of Lorraine
René II, Duke of Lorraine was a late 15th-century French noble best known for leading the forces that defeated Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy, helping to end Burgundian power in the region.
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C.
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine was a 16th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics and religious conflicts of his time.
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Charles of Lorraine
Charles of Lorraine was a 17th-century Habsburg general and nobleman best known for leading imperial forces against the Ottoman Empire and in the wars following the Battle of Vienna.
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Duke of Lorraine
The Duke of Lorraine was the sovereign ruler of the historic Duchy of Lorraine in northeastern France, a title held by several prominent European nobles including future emperors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Lorraine
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human ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| allyOf | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1424-08-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Nancy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Nancy Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Catherine of Lorraine
NERFINISHED
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Joan of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Yolande of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Duchy of Lorraine
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1470-12-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Nancy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Charles II, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| memberOfDynasty | House of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Isabella of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Duke of Lorraine
NERFINISHED
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Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Wars in the Low Countries (15th century)
NERFINISHED
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conflicts between France and Burgundy ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Isabella of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1470 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1453 ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| residence | Nancy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Marie de Bourbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleStart | Duke of Lorraine, 1453 ⓘ |
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: John II, Duke of Lorraine Description of subject: John II, Duke of Lorraine was a late 15th- to early 16th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and participated in the Italian Wars as an ally of the French crown.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.