William VI, Marquess of Montferrat
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William VI, Marquess of Montferrat was a 13th-century Italian nobleman and crusader from the influential Aleramici dynasty who ruled the Marquisate of Montferrat in northwestern Italy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William VI, Marquess of Montferrat canonical | 6 |
| William VI of Montferrat | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11856362 — 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: William VI, Marquess of Montferrat Context triple: [Beatrice of Hohenstaufen, spouse, William VI, Marquess of Montferrat]
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A.
William V of Montferrat
William V of Montferrat was a 12th-century Italian nobleman and crusader who served as Marquis of Montferrat and played a significant role in the politics of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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B.
Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat
Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat was a late 15th- to early 16th-century Italian nobleman of the House of Palaiologos who ruled the small but strategically important Marquisate of Montferrat in northern Italy.
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C.
Renier of Montferrat
Renier of Montferrat was a 12th-century nobleman of the influential Montferrat dynasty who became associated with the Byzantine imperial family through marriage.
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D.
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy was a 15th-century ruler of the Duchy of Savoy, noted for his piety, charitable works, and later veneration as a blessed figure in the Catholic Church.
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E.
Frederick of Montferrat
Frederick of Montferrat was a 12th-century Italian nobleman of the influential Aleramici dynasty, known primarily as a younger son of William V of Montferrat and brother of crusader leaders such as Boniface I.
- 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: William VI, Marquess of Montferrat Target entity description: William VI, Marquess of Montferrat was a 13th-century Italian nobleman and crusader from the influential Aleramici dynasty who ruled the Marquisate of Montferrat in northwestern Italy.
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A.
William V of Montferrat
William V of Montferrat was a 12th-century Italian nobleman and crusader who served as Marquis of Montferrat and played a significant role in the politics of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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B.
Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat
Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat was a late 15th- to early 16th-century Italian nobleman of the House of Palaiologos who ruled the small but strategically important Marquisate of Montferrat in northern Italy.
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C.
Renier of Montferrat
Renier of Montferrat was a 12th-century nobleman of the influential Montferrat dynasty who became associated with the Byzantine imperial family through marriage.
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D.
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy was a 15th-century ruler of the Duchy of Savoy, noted for his piety, charitable works, and later veneration as a blessed figure in the Catholic Church.
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E.
Frederick of Montferrat
Frederick of Montferrat was a 12th-century Italian nobleman of the influential Aleramici dynasty, known primarily as a younger son of William V of Montferrat and brother of crusader leaders such as Boniface I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian noble
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Marquess of Montferrat ⓘ crusader ⓘ medieval ruler ⓘ member of nobility ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activity | crusading ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Marquisate of Montferrat
ⓘ
linked to:
Margraviate of Montferrat
|
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Italy ⓘ |
| memberOf | Aleramici dynasty ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Aleramici ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Marquess ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in crusades
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rule of the Marquisate of Montferrat ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
ruler ⓘ |
| ordinalNumber | VI ⓘ |
| partOf | medieval Italian principalities ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Marquess of Montferrat ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Italy ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
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linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| residence | Montferrat ⓘ |
| ruled |
Marquisate of Montferrat
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linked to:
Margraviate of Montferrat
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| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 13th century ⓘ |
| titleHeldIn | northwestern Italy ⓘ |
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: William VI, Marquess of Montferrat Description of subject: William VI, Marquess of Montferrat was a 13th-century Italian nobleman and crusader from the influential Aleramici dynasty who ruled the Marquisate of Montferrat in northwestern Italy.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.