William I of Orange
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William I of Orange, also known as William the Silent, was the 16th-century Dutch nobleman who led the revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the independent Dutch Republic.
All labels observed (7)
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| William of Orange | 18 |
| William the Silent | 6 |
| William I of Orange canonical | 5 |
| William I, Prince of Orange | 2 |
| Prince of Orange | 1 |
| William I of Orange (William the Silent) | 1 |
| William I of Orange-Nassau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50433 — 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)
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Target entity: William I of Orange Context triple: [House of Orange-Nassau, hasNotableMember, William I of Orange]
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Prince William of Orange (disputed)
Prince William of Orange (disputed) is a historically contested namesake figure associated with the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau, often linked to colonial-era place naming in what is now the United States.
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Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was a German-born Dutch prince consort, husband of Queen Juliana, noted for his role in the Dutch resistance during World War II and for founding the World Wildlife Fund.
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Willem-Alexander
Willem-Alexander is the King of the Netherlands, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the country's first male monarch in over a century.
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Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Hanover whose lineage helped pave the way for the Hanoverian succession to the British throne.
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James II of England
James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
- 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 I of Orange Target entity description: William I of Orange, also known as William the Silent, was the 16th-century Dutch nobleman who led the revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the independent Dutch Republic.
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Prince William of Orange (disputed)
Prince William of Orange (disputed) is a historically contested namesake figure associated with the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau, often linked to colonial-era place naming in what is now the United States.
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B.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was a German-born Dutch prince consort, husband of Queen Juliana, noted for his role in the Dutch resistance during World War II and for founding the World Wildlife Fund.
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C.
Willem-Alexander
Willem-Alexander is the King of the Netherlands, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the country's first male monarch in over a century.
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D.
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Hanover whose lineage helped pave the way for the Hanoverian succession to the British throne.
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E.
James II of England
James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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.
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Subject: William I of Orange Description of subject: William I of Orange, also known as William the Silent, was the 16th-century Dutch nobleman who led the revolt against Spanish rule and is regarded as the founding father of the independent Dutch Republic.
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William I of Orange-Nassau
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