John
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John I, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled Brittany and was involved in the complex feudal politics between France and England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11719023 — 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.
Target entity: John Context triple: [John I, Duke of Brittany, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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John
John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
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John
John is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
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John
John is the given name of John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
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John
John is the common given name of American author and YouTube creator John Green, known for novels like "The Fault in Our Stars" and for co-founding the Vlogbrothers channel.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John I, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled Brittany and was involved in the complex feudal politics between France and England.
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John
John of Montfort was a 14th-century nobleman involved in the Breton succession disputes during the Hundred Years’ War.
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John
John the Fearless was a powerful early 15th-century Duke of Burgundy known for his aggressive political maneuvers and pivotal role in the French civil conflicts of the Hundred Years’ War.
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John
John II of France was a 14th-century King of France, known as "John the Good," whose reign was marked by the Hundred Years' War and his capture at the Battle of Poitiers.
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John
John was a medieval English monarch who ruled as King John of England from 1199 to 1216 and is best known for sealing the Magna Carta.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Woodville, a 15th-century English nobleman associated with the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
ⓘ
duke ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegianceShiftedBetween |
King of England
ⓘ
King of France ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Capetian France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRealm | Plantagenet England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1217 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 13th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1286 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| father | Peter I, Duke of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalAllegiance |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governanceType | feudal monarchy ⓘ |
| governedAs | feudal vassal of the French crown ⓘ |
| heldTitle | Count of Richmond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Anglo-French feudal politics
ⓘ
Capetian–Plantagenet conflicts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Breton
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Old French ⓘ |
| mother | Alix of Thouars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Dreux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| notableFor | balancing loyalties between France and England ⓘ |
| politicalRole | mediator between French and English interests in Brittany ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duke of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Peter I, Duke of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1286 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1221 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| ruledTerritory | Duchy of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | John I of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | John II, Duke of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Duke of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Description of subject: John I, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled Brittany and was involved in the complex feudal politics between France and England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.