Simon I, Duke of Lorraine
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Simon I, Duke of Lorraine was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
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| Simon I, Duke of Lorraine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10278942 — 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: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine Context triple: [Duke of Lorraine, hasTitleHolder, Simon I, Duke of Lorraine]
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Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine
Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine, was a 10th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine within the Holy Roman Empire and played a role in the region’s early medieval power struggles.
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B.
Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine
Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine, was a 10th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine in the Holy Roman Empire and played a role in the region’s early medieval power struggles.
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C.
Henry II, Duke of Lorraine
Henry II, Duke of Lorraine was a 17th-century French nobleman and military leader who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine during the turbulent period of the Thirty Years' War and its aftermath.
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D.
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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E.
Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine Target entity description: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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A.
Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine
Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine, was a 10th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine within the Holy Roman Empire and played a role in the region’s early medieval power struggles.
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B.
Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine
Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine, was a 10th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine in the Holy Roman Empire and played a role in the region’s early medieval power struggles.
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C.
Henry II, Duke of Lorraine
Henry II, Duke of Lorraine was a 17th-century French nobleman and military leader who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine during the turbulent period of the Thirty Years' War and its aftermath.
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D.
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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E.
Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
duke
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medieval ruler ⓘ member of the House of Lorraine ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| allegiance | Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lorraine (exact site uncertain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 12th century ⓘ |
| child |
Agatha of Lorraine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baldwin of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Bertha of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Hedwig of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Mathilde of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ Theoderic of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Duchy of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Thierry II, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalRank | prince of the Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| governedTerritory |
Lower Lorraine (in part, as overlord)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Latin
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Old French ⓘ |
| mother | Gertrude of Flanders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherFamily | House of Flanders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in Holy Roman Empire politics
ⓘ
rule of the Duchy of Lorraine ⓘ |
| partOf | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Thierry II, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | Duchy of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1138 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1115 ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| spouse | Adelaide of Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseFamily | House of Leuven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine Description of subject: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine was a 12th-century nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.