Charles de Coligny
E177384
Charles de Coligny was a French nobleman and military officer of the late 16th century, known as the son of the Huguenot admiral Gaspard II de Coligny and for his later conversion to Catholicism and service to the French crown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles de Coligny canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1462355 — 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: Charles de Coligny Context triple: [Gaspard II de Coligny, child, Charles de Coligny]
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A.
Gaspard I de Coligny
Gaspard I de Coligny was a prominent early 16th-century French nobleman and military leader who founded the influential Coligny family line later associated with Huguenot leadership.
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B.
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny was a prominent 16th-century French admiral and Huguenot leader who became one of the principal Protestant commanders and political figures during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
François de Coligny
François de Coligny was a 16th-century French Huguenot nobleman and military leader, known as the son of Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny and for his role in the French Wars of Religion.
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D.
Odet de Coligny
Odet de Coligny was a 16th-century French cardinal and prominent member of the influential Coligny family who later converted to Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion.
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E.
Jehan Cauvin
Jehan Cauvin is the French-born theologian and reformer better known by his Latinized name John Calvin, a central figure in the Protestant Reformation and the development of Calvinism.
- 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: Charles de Coligny Target entity description: Charles de Coligny was a French nobleman and military officer of the late 16th century, known as the son of the Huguenot admiral Gaspard II de Coligny and for his later conversion to Catholicism and service to the French crown.
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A.
Gaspard I de Coligny
Gaspard I de Coligny was a prominent early 16th-century French nobleman and military leader who founded the influential Coligny family line later associated with Huguenot leadership.
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B.
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny was a prominent 16th-century French admiral and Huguenot leader who became one of the principal Protestant commanders and political figures during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
François de Coligny
François de Coligny was a 16th-century French Huguenot nobleman and military leader, known as the son of Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny and for his role in the French Wars of Religion.
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D.
Odet de Coligny
Odet de Coligny was a 16th-century French cardinal and prominent member of the influential Coligny family who later converted to Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion.
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E.
Jehan Cauvin
Jehan Cauvin is the French-born theologian and reformer better known by his Latinized name John Calvin, a central figure in the Protestant Reformation and the development of Calvinism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| allegiance | King of France ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| convertedFrom | Protestantism ⓘ |
| convertedTo | Catholicism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
member of the Coligny family
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son of Gaspard II de Coligny ⓘ |
| father | Gaspard II de Coligny ⓘ |
| memberOfNobleFamily | House of Coligny ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French royal forces ⓘ |
| mother | Charlotte de Laval ⓘ |
| movement | French Wars of Religion ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | French noble ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | Gaspard II de Coligny ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being son of Huguenot admiral Gaspard II de Coligny
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conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism ⓘ service to the French crown ⓘ |
| participatedIn | French Wars of Religion ⓘ |
| positionHeld | military officer in the French army ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholicism
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linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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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: Charles de Coligny Description of subject: Charles de Coligny was a French nobleman and military officer of the late 16th century, known as the son of the Huguenot admiral Gaspard II de Coligny and for his later conversion to Catholicism and service to the French crown.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.