Gregory XI
E373320
Gregory XI was the 14th-century pope best known for returning the papacy from Avignon to Rome, effectively ending the Avignon Papacy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gregory XI canonical | 6 |
| Pope Gregory XI | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3514510 — 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: Gregory XI Context triple: [pontificate of Gregory XI, papalName, Gregory XI]
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Pope Clement VI
Pope Clement VI was a 14th-century Avignon pope known for his lavish court, political involvement in European affairs, and leadership during the Black Death.
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Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV was the head of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447, known for his efforts to assert papal authority and for presiding over the Council of Florence, which sought to reunite the Eastern and Western Churches.
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C.
Pope Clement IV
Pope Clement IV was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1265 to 1268, known for his involvement in Italian and European political conflicts, including the struggle against the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
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D.
Pope Benedict XIII
Pope Benedict XIII was a 15th-century antipope, born Pedro de Luna, who led the Avignon papacy during the Western Schism and was later declared illegitimate by the Roman Catholic Church.
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E.
Pope Martin IV
Pope Martin IV was a 13th-century French-born pope whose papacy is noted for his strong support of Charles of Anjou and involvement in the politics of Italy and Aragon.
- 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: Gregory XI Target entity description: Gregory XI was the 14th-century pope best known for returning the papacy from Avignon to Rome, effectively ending the Avignon Papacy.
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A.
Pope Clement VI
Pope Clement VI was a 14th-century Avignon pope known for his lavish court, political involvement in European affairs, and leadership during the Black Death.
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B.
Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV was the head of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447, known for his efforts to assert papal authority and for presiding over the Council of Florence, which sought to reunite the Eastern and Western Churches.
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C.
Pope Clement IV
Pope Clement IV was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1265 to 1268, known for his involvement in Italian and European political conflicts, including the struggle against the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
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D.
Pope Benedict XIII
Pope Benedict XIII was a 15th-century antipope, born Pedro de Luna, who led the Avignon papacy during the Western Schism and was later declared illegitimate by the Roman Catholic Church.
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E.
Pope Martin IV
Pope Martin IV was a 13th-century French-born pope whose papacy is noted for his strong support of Charles of Anjou and involvement in the politics of Italy and Aragon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Gregory XI Description of subject: Gregory XI was the 14th-century pope best known for returning the papacy from Avignon to Rome, effectively ending the Avignon Papacy.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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