Emma of Normandy
E100968
Emma of Normandy was a powerful 11th-century queen of England, married to both Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great, and a key political figure as the mother of King Edward the Confessor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emma of Normandy canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T855152 — 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: Emma of Normandy Context triple: [Edward the Confessor, mother, Emma of Normandy]
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A.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a powerful 12th-century queen consort of both France and England and one of the most influential and wealthy women of the Middle Ages.
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B.
Beatrice of England
Beatrice of England was a 13th-century English princess and daughter of King Henry III who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to John II, Duke of Brittany.
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C.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
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D.
Queen Philippa of Hainault
Queen Philippa of Hainault was a 14th-century Queen of England, wife of King Edward III, noted for her political influence, patronage of learning, and reputation for kindness and mercy.
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E.
Elizabeth of England
Elizabeth of England was a lesser-known member of the English royal family, recognized primarily as a sibling of King James II.
- 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: Emma of Normandy Target entity description: Emma of Normandy was a powerful 11th-century queen of England, married to both Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great, and a key political figure as the mother of King Edward the Confessor.
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A.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a powerful 12th-century queen consort of both France and England and one of the most influential and wealthy women of the Middle Ages.
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B.
Beatrice of England
Beatrice of England was a 13th-century English princess and daughter of King Henry III who became Duchess of Brittany through her marriage to John II, Duke of Brittany.
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C.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
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D.
Queen Philippa of Hainault
Queen Philippa of Hainault was a 14th-century Queen of England, wife of King Edward III, noted for her political influence, patronage of learning, and reputation for kindness and mercy.
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E.
Elizabeth of England
Elizabeth of England was a lesser-known member of the English royal family, recognized primarily as a sibling of King James II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Emma of Normandy Description of subject: Emma of Normandy was a powerful 11th-century queen of England, married to both Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great, and a key political figure as the mother of King Edward the Confessor.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.