War of the League of Cognac
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The War of the League of Cognac was a major early 16th-century conflict in which France, several Italian states, and the Papacy allied to resist the expansion of Habsburg (Spanish and Holy Roman Empire) power in Italy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| War of the League of Cognac canonical | 15 |
| War of the Holy League | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T659513 — 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: War of the League of Cognac Context triple: [Italian Wars, hasPart, War of the League of Cognac]
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A.
League of Cambrai
The League of Cambrai was an early 16th-century anti-Venetian alliance of major European powers, including France, the Papal States, and the Holy Roman Empire, formed to curb the territorial expansion of the Republic of Venice.
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B.
War of Devolution
The War of Devolution was a 1667–1668 conflict in which France, under Louis XIV, invaded the Spanish Netherlands to press dynastic claims, prompting European powers to form the Triple Alliance to check French expansion.
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C.
Franco-Dutch War
The Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678) was a major European conflict in which France, allied with England and several German states, sought to dominate and partition the Dutch Republic, triggering a wider continental struggle that reshaped the balance of power.
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D.
Cologne War
The Cologne War was a late 16th-century conflict in the Holy Roman Empire sparked by a Catholic archbishop’s conversion to Protestantism, exemplifying the religious and political struggles of the European wars of religion.
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E.
Scanian War
The Scanian War was a late 17th-century conflict in Northern Europe in which Sweden fought Denmark-Norway and its allies over control of territories in southern Scandinavia.
- 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: War of the League of Cognac Target entity description: The War of the League of Cognac was a major early 16th-century conflict in which France, several Italian states, and the Papacy allied to resist the expansion of Habsburg (Spanish and Holy Roman Empire) power in Italy.
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A.
League of Cambrai
The League of Cambrai was an early 16th-century anti-Venetian alliance of major European powers, including France, the Papal States, and the Holy Roman Empire, formed to curb the territorial expansion of the Republic of Venice.
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B.
War of Devolution
The War of Devolution was a 1667–1668 conflict in which France, under Louis XIV, invaded the Spanish Netherlands to press dynastic claims, prompting European powers to form the Triple Alliance to check French expansion.
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C.
Franco-Dutch War
The Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678) was a major European conflict in which France, allied with England and several German states, sought to dominate and partition the Dutch Republic, triggering a wider continental struggle that reshaped the balance of power.
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D.
Cologne War
The Cologne War was a late 16th-century conflict in the Holy Roman Empire sparked by a Catholic archbishop’s conversion to Protestantism, exemplifying the religious and political struggles of the European wars of religion.
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E.
Scanian War
The Scanian War was a late 17th-century conflict in Northern Europe in which Sweden fought Denmark-Norway and its allies over control of territories in southern Scandinavia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: War of the League of Cognac Description of subject: The War of the League of Cognac was a major early 16th-century conflict in which France, several Italian states, and the Papacy allied to resist the expansion of Habsburg (Spanish and Holy Roman Empire) power in Italy.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
War of the Holy League
Philibert of Chalon was a general of Emperor Charles V
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War of the League of Cognac
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subject surface form:
Philibert of Chalon