William, Prince of Orange
E239914
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.
All labels observed (1)
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| William, Prince of Orange canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1912614 — 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, Prince of Orange Context triple: [Battle of Quatre Bras, commander, William, Prince of Orange]
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A.
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.
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B.
William II, Prince of Orange
William II, Prince of Orange was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who played a key role in the later stages of the Eighty Years' War and in the politics of the Dutch Republic.
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C.
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.
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D.
William V, Prince of Orange
William V, Prince of Orange was the last hereditary stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, whose conservative rule and exile during the late 18th century marked the end of the traditional Dutch stadtholderate.
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Maurice of Nassau
Maurice of Nassau was a Dutch military leader and stadtholder who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt against Spain and in shaping the Dutch Republic’s early success.
- 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, Prince of Orange Target entity description: 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.
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A.
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.
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B.
William II, Prince of Orange
William II, Prince of Orange was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who played a key role in the later stages of the Eighty Years' War and in the politics of the Dutch Republic.
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C.
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.
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D.
William V, Prince of Orange
William V, Prince of Orange was the last hereditary stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, whose conservative rule and exile during the late 18th century marked the end of the traditional Dutch stadtholderate.
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E.
Maurice of Nassau
Maurice of Nassau was a Dutch military leader and stadtholder who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt against Spain and in shaping the Dutch Republic’s early success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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, Prince of Orange Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.