William the Silent
E245199
Prince of Orange
Protestant leader
Stadtholder
founding father
human
military leader
nobleman
politician
William the Silent was the 16th-century Prince of Orange who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, laying the foundations for an independent Dutch Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William the Silent canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2204024 — 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 the Silent Context triple: [Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, burialPlaceOf, William the Silent]
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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.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who significantly strengthened the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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 the Silent Target entity description: William the Silent was the 16th-century Prince of Orange who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, laying the foundations for an independent Dutch Republic.
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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.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was a 17th-century Dutch stadtholder and military leader who significantly strengthened the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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 the Silent Description of subject: William the Silent was the 16th-century Prince of Orange who led the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, laying the foundations for an independent Dutch Republic.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.