Maurice, Prince of Orange

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Maurice, Prince of Orange was a prominent Dutch military leader and stadtholder who played a key role in the Dutch struggle for independence during the Eighty Years' War.

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Label	Occurrences
Maurice of Nassau	7
Maurice, Prince of Orange canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18467640 — 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: Maurice, Prince of Orange
Context triple: [Emilia of Nassau, sibling, Maurice, Prince of Orange]

A. William, Prince of Orange
William, Prince of Orange (later King William II of the Netherlands) was a 19th-century Dutch royal and military leader best known for his prominent role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly the Waterloo campaign.
B. William, Prince of Orange
William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King William III of the Netherlands who died before he could ascend the throne.
C. Louis, Prince of Orange-Nassau
Louis, Prince of Orange-Nassau was an 18th-century Dutch nobleman and member of the House of Orange-Nassau, known primarily as the son of Stadtholder William V and Wilhelmina of Prussia.
D. Alexander, Prince of Orange
Alexander, Prince of Orange was the eldest son and heir apparent of King William III of the Netherlands who died young, preventing him from ascending to the throne.
E. Philip William, Prince of Orange
Philip William, Prince of Orange was the eldest son and heir of William the Silent, who became Prince of Orange and a prominent noble in the Habsburg Netherlands during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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: Maurice, Prince of Orange
Target entity description: Maurice, Prince of Orange was a prominent Dutch military leader and stadtholder who played a key role in the Dutch struggle for independence during the Eighty Years' War.

A. William, Prince of Orange
William, Prince of Orange (later King William II of the Netherlands) was a 19th-century Dutch royal and military leader best known for his prominent role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly the Waterloo campaign.
B. William, Prince of Orange
William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King William III of the Netherlands who died before he could ascend the throne.
C. Louis, Prince of Orange-Nassau
Louis, Prince of Orange-Nassau was an 18th-century Dutch nobleman and member of the House of Orange-Nassau, known primarily as the son of Stadtholder William V and Wilhelmina of Prussia.
D. Alexander, Prince of Orange
Alexander, Prince of Orange was the eldest son and heir apparent of King William III of the Netherlands who died young, preventing him from ascending to the throne.
E. Philip William, Prince of Orange
Philip William, Prince of Orange was the eldest son and heir of William the Silent, who became Prince of Orange and a prominent noble in the Habsburg Netherlands during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
F. None of above. chosen