Good King Henry
E176972
Good King Henry is the popular epithet of Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king renowned for ending the French Wars of Religion and issuing the Edict of Nantes to promote religious tolerance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Good King Henry canonical | 3 |
| le bon roi Henri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1564659 — 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: Good King Henry Context triple: [Henry IV of France, alsoKnownAs, Good King Henry]
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A.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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B.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
The King
The King is the iconic nickname of Elvis Presley, the pioneering American rock and roll singer and cultural figure often regarded as one of the most significant entertainers of the 20th century.
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D.
The King
"The King" is an English translation of the Arabic divine name "Al-Malik," one of the 99 Names of Allah in Islam, signifying God's absolute sovereignty and dominion over all creation.
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E.
Becket
Becket is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Good King Henry Target entity description: Good King Henry is the popular epithet of Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king renowned for ending the French Wars of Religion and issuing the Edict of Nantes to promote religious tolerance.
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A.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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B.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
The King
The King is the iconic nickname of Elvis Presley, the pioneering American rock and roll singer and cultural figure often regarded as one of the most significant entertainers of the 20th century.
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D.
The King
"The King" is an English translation of the Arabic divine name "Al-Malik," one of the 99 Names of Allah in Islam, signifying God's absolute sovereignty and dominion over all creation.
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E.
Becket
Becket is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of France
ⓘ
epithet ⓘ human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Henri IV
ⓘ
linked to:
Henry IV of France
Henry of Navarre ⓘ
linked to:
Henry IV of France
|
| appliedTo | first Bourbon king of France ⓘ |
| assassinatedBy | François Ravaillac ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1553-12-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Pau, Kingdom of Navarre
ⓘ
linked to:
Pau
|
| burialPlace | Basilica of Saint-Denis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| child |
Christine of France
ⓘ
Elisabeth of France ⓘ Gaston, Duke of Orléans ⓘ Louis XIII of France ⓘ
linked to:
King Louis XIII
|
| connotation |
benevolent
ⓘ
popular ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1610-05-14 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Paris, Kingdom of France
ⓘ
linked to:
Paris
|
| event | French Wars of Religion ⓘ |
| father | Antoine of Navarre ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| issued | Edict of Nantes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
economic reconstruction of France
ⓘ
ending the French Wars of Religion ⓘ issuing the Edict of Nantes ⓘ promoting religious tolerance in France ⓘ restoring royal authority in France ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| laterReligion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | stabbed ⓘ |
| mother |
Jeanne d'Albret
ⓘ
linked to:
Jeanne d’Albret
|
| nativeName |
Henri IV
ⓘ
linked to:
Henry IV of France
|
| nickname |
Good King Henry
ⓘ
Vert galant ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Bourbon ⓘ |
| predecessor | Henry III of France ⓘ |
| refersTo | Henry IV of France ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1610 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1589 ⓘ |
| religion | Calvinism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret of Valois
ⓘ
Marie de' Medici ⓘ
linked to:
Marie de’ Medici
|
| successor |
Louis XIII of France
ⓘ
linked to:
King Louis XIII
|
| title |
King of France
ⓘ
King of Navarre ⓘ |
| usedFor | Henry IV of France's reputation for good governance ⓘ |
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: Good King Henry Description of subject: Good King Henry is the popular epithet of Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king renowned for ending the French Wars of Religion and issuing the Edict of Nantes to promote religious tolerance.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.