Blanche of Brittany
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Blanche of Brittany was a 13th-century French noblewoman of the ducal house of Brittany, notable for her Plantagenet royal connections through her mother Beatrice of England.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blanche of Brittany canonical | 7 |
| Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2710213 — 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: Blanche of Brittany Context triple: [Beatrice of England, child, Blanche of Brittany]
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Duchess of Brittany
The Duchess of Brittany was the consort or female ruler associated with the historic Duchy of Brittany in medieval France, often playing a key role in regional politics and dynastic alliances.
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Marie of Brittany
Marie of Brittany was a 13th-century French noblewoman, daughter of John II, Duke of Brittany, and Beatrice of England, and a granddaughter of King Henry III of England.
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Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, was a 14th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward III, who became duchess through her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany.
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Yolande of Dreux
Yolande of Dreux was a 13th-century French noblewoman who became Queen Consort of Scotland through her marriage to King Alexander III.
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Aenor de Châtellerault
Aenor de Châtellerault was a 12th-century French noblewoman, daughter of Viscount Aimery I of Châtellerault and mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of medieval Europe’s most powerful queens.
- 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: Blanche of Brittany Target entity description: Blanche of Brittany was a 13th-century French noblewoman of the ducal house of Brittany, notable for her Plantagenet royal connections through her mother Beatrice of England.
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A.
Duchess of Brittany
The Duchess of Brittany was the consort or female ruler associated with the historic Duchy of Brittany in medieval France, often playing a key role in regional politics and dynastic alliances.
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B.
Marie of Brittany
Marie of Brittany was a 13th-century French noblewoman, daughter of John II, Duke of Brittany, and Beatrice of England, and a granddaughter of King Henry III of England.
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C.
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, was a 14th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward III, who became duchess through her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany.
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D.
Yolande of Dreux
Yolande of Dreux was a 13th-century French noblewoman who became Queen Consort of Scotland through her marriage to King Alexander III.
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E.
Aenor de Châtellerault
Aenor de Châtellerault was a 12th-century French noblewoman, daughter of Viscount Aimery I of Châtellerault and mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of medieval Europe’s most powerful queens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Blanche of Brittany Description of subject: Blanche of Brittany was a 13th-century French noblewoman of the ducal house of Brittany, notable for her Plantagenet royal connections through her mother Beatrice of England.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Blanche of Brittany