Count of Cornouaille
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The Count of Cornouaille was a medieval noble title associated with the rulers of the Cornouaille region in Brittany, France.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Count of Cornouaille canonical | 2 |
| County of Cornouaille | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11362105 — 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: Count of Cornouaille Context triple: [House of Cornouaille, hasTitle, Count of Cornouaille]
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A.
King of Brittany
The King of Brittany was the medieval sovereign ruler of the historical region of Brittany in western France, preceding the later ducal authority.
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B.
Froncysyllte
Froncysyllte is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, best known for its proximity to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Llangollen Canal.
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C.
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd is a legendary 12th-century Welsh prince who, according to later folklore, is said to have voyaged to and discovered lands in the Americas long before Columbus.
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D.
Lord of Glamorgan
Lord of Glamorgan was a prominent medieval feudal title associated with the powerful marcher lordship centered on Glamorgan in south Wales.
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E.
Ecgwynn
Ecgwynn was an early 10th-century English noblewoman, best known as the first consort of King Edward the Elder and the mother of King Æthelstan.
- 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: Count of Cornouaille Target entity description: The Count of Cornouaille was a medieval noble title associated with the rulers of the Cornouaille region in Brittany, France.
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A.
King of Brittany
The King of Brittany was the medieval sovereign ruler of the historical region of Brittany in western France, preceding the later ducal authority.
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B.
Froncysyllte
Froncysyllte is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, best known for its proximity to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Llangollen Canal.
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C.
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd
Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd is a legendary 12th-century Welsh prince who, according to later folklore, is said to have voyaged to and discovered lands in the Americas long before Columbus.
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D.
Lord of Glamorgan
Lord of Glamorgan was a prominent medieval feudal title associated with the powerful marcher lordship centered on Glamorgan in south Wales.
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E.
Ecgwynn
Ecgwynn was an early 10th-century English noblewoman, best known as the first consort of King Edward the Elder and the mother of King Æthelstan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medieval county title
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noble title ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Breton nobility ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | House of Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Bretons ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| feudalRank | count ⓘ |
| governs | County of Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Quimper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Breton
ⓘ
Old French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegionNowIn | Finistère department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brittany
ⓘ
Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ Western France ⓘ
surface form:
northwestern France
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| nobleRankIn | Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTitleHolder |
Alan of Cornouaille
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hoël I of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ Rivallon of Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Duchy of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | feudalism ⓘ |
| precededBy | local Breton chieftains ⓘ |
| regionType | historic province of Brittany ⓘ |
| religionHistorically | Roman Catholicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sovereignOver | Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHolder | House of Cornouaille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleIn | Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleTerritorialBasis | Cornouaille region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Count of Cornouaille Description of subject: The Count of Cornouaille was a medieval noble title associated with the rulers of the Cornouaille region in Brittany, France.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
County of Cornouaille