Tancred of Hauteville
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Tancred of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman whose numerous sons founded powerful dynasties in southern Italy and Sicily, making him the patriarch of the influential Hauteville family.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tancred of Hauteville canonical | 16 |
| Alberic of Hauteville | 1 |
| Tancred of Hauteville the Younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3958918 — 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: Tancred of Hauteville Context triple: [Hauteville dynasty, notableMember, Tancred of Hauteville]
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Drogo of Hauteville
Drogo of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman adventurer and military leader who became one of the earliest Norman lords in southern Italy, helping to establish Norman power there.
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Geoffrey of Hauteville
Geoffrey of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the 11th century, a member of the influential Hauteville family that played a key role in the Norman conquest and rule of southern Italy and Sicily.
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C.
Mauger of Hauteville
Mauger of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the influential Hauteville family, known primarily as a son of Roger I of Sicily.
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D.
Jordan of Hauteville
Jordan of Hauteville was the illegitimate eldest son and designated heir of Roger I of Sicily, known for his military role in the Norman conquest of southern Italy before his early death.
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Humphrey of Hauteville
Humphrey of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman who led the expansion of Norman power in southern Italy as a key member of the influential Hauteville family.
- 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: Tancred of Hauteville Target entity description: Tancred of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman whose numerous sons founded powerful dynasties in southern Italy and Sicily, making him the patriarch of the influential Hauteville family.
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A.
Drogo of Hauteville
Drogo of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman adventurer and military leader who became one of the earliest Norman lords in southern Italy, helping to establish Norman power there.
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B.
Geoffrey of Hauteville
Geoffrey of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the 11th century, a member of the influential Hauteville family that played a key role in the Norman conquest and rule of southern Italy and Sicily.
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C.
Mauger of Hauteville
Mauger of Hauteville was a Norman nobleman of the influential Hauteville family, known primarily as a son of Roger I of Sicily.
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D.
Jordan of Hauteville
Jordan of Hauteville was the illegitimate eldest son and designated heir of Roger I of Sicily, known for his military role in the Norman conquest of southern Italy before his early death.
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E.
Humphrey of Hauteville
Humphrey of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman who led the expansion of Norman power in southern Italy as a key member of the influential Hauteville family.
- 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: Tancred of Hauteville Description of subject: Tancred of Hauteville was an 11th-century Norman nobleman whose numerous sons founded powerful dynasties in southern Italy and Sicily, making him the patriarch of the influential Hauteville family.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tancred of Hauteville