Philip of Alençon
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Philip of Alençon was a 14th-century French prince of the Capetian House of Valois who became a prominent cardinal and papal legate in the Catholic Church.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip of Alençon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11026798 — 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: Philip of Alençon Context triple: [Peter, Count of Alençon, child, Philip of Alençon]
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A.
Louis, Count of Alençon
Louis, Count of Alençon was a 13th-century French prince of the Capetian dynasty who held the county of Alençon and participated in the political and dynastic affairs of medieval France.
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B.
Peter, Count of Alençon
Peter, Count of Alençon was a 13th-century French prince and nobleman, notable as a younger son of King Louis IX of France and a member of the Capetian royal dynasty.
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C.
Jean II, Duke of Alençon
Jean II, Duke of Alençon was a prominent French nobleman and military leader of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his death fighting against the English at Agincourt.
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D.
Charles II, Count of Alençon
Charles II, Count of Alençon was a 14th-century French prince and nobleman of the Capetian dynasty, notable as the younger brother of King Philip VI of France.
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E.
Charles IV, Duke of Alençon
Charles IV, Duke of Alençon was a French nobleman and military leader of the early 16th century, notable for his high rank at the court of Francis I and his involvement in the Italian Wars.
- 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: Philip of Alençon Target entity description: Philip of Alençon was a 14th-century French prince of the Capetian House of Valois who became a prominent cardinal and papal legate in the Catholic Church.
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A.
Louis, Count of Alençon
Louis, Count of Alençon was a 13th-century French prince of the Capetian dynasty who held the county of Alençon and participated in the political and dynastic affairs of medieval France.
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B.
Peter, Count of Alençon
Peter, Count of Alençon was a 13th-century French prince and nobleman, notable as a younger son of King Louis IX of France and a member of the Capetian royal dynasty.
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C.
Jean II, Duke of Alençon
Jean II, Duke of Alençon was a prominent French nobleman and military leader of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his death fighting against the English at Agincourt.
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D.
Charles II, Count of Alençon
Charles II, Count of Alençon was a 14th-century French prince and nobleman of the Capetian dynasty, notable as the younger brother of King Philip VI of France.
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E.
Charles IV, Duke of Alençon
Charles IV, Duke of Alençon was a French nobleman and military leader of the early 16th century, notable for his high rank at the court of Francis I and his involvement in the Italian Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
14th-century person
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Catholic cardinal ⓘ French prince ⓘ cardinal ⓘ human ⓘ papal legate ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleHolderOf | Alençon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
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ecclesiastical politics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Philip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Capetian House of Valois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Capetian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | prince ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Prince of the blood ⓘ |
| notableFamily | House of Valois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
membership in the Capetian House of Valois
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role as papal legate ⓘ service as cardinal in the Catholic Church ⓘ |
| occupation |
clergyman
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diplomat ⓘ prelate ⓘ |
| partOf |
College of Cardinals
NERFINISHED
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French clergy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
archbishop
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bishop ⓘ cardinal-priest ⓘ papal legate ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
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: Philip of Alençon Description of subject: Philip of Alençon was a 14th-century French prince of the Capetian House of Valois who became a prominent cardinal and papal legate in the Catholic Church.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.