William II of the Netherlands
E10694
Grand Duke of Luxembourg
King of the Netherlands
Prince of Orange
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member of the House of Orange-Nassau
William II of the Netherlands was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840 to 1849, known for accepting a liberal constitution that transformed his country into a constitutional monarchy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William II of the Netherlands canonical | 40 |
| King William II of the Netherlands | 6 |
| Prince William II of the Netherlands | 1 |
| Willem II, Koning der Nederlanden | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T50440 — 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 II of the Netherlands Context triple: [House of Orange-Nassau, hasNotableMember, William II of the Netherlands]
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William I of the Netherlands
William I of the Netherlands was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who played a key role in establishing the modern Dutch state after the Napoleonic era.
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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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William I of Orange
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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Philippe of Belgium
Philippe of Belgium is the current King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the constitutional monarch of Belgium.
- 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 II of the Netherlands Target entity description: William II of the Netherlands was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840 to 1849, known for accepting a liberal constitution that transformed his country into a constitutional monarchy.
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A.
William I of the Netherlands
William I of the Netherlands was the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who played a key role in establishing the modern Dutch state after the Napoleonic era.
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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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William I of Orange
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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E.
Philippe of Belgium
Philippe of Belgium is the current King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the constitutional monarch of Belgium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 II of the Netherlands Description of subject: William II of the Netherlands was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840 to 1849, known for accepting a liberal constitution that transformed his country into a constitutional monarchy.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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William I
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Orange-Nassau
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Kingdom of the Netherlands (1839–1866) Duchy of Limburg in German Confederation
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