Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851)
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Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) was a Prussian royal general and statesman, the youngest son of King Frederick William II, who played a significant military and political role in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic eras.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) canonical | 1 |
| Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882–1951) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9415933 — 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: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) Context triple: [Prince Charles of Prussia, sibling, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851)]
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Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846)
Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) was a Prussian prince and military officer of the House of Hohenzollern who served in the Napoleonic Wars and later held various high-ranking positions in the Prussian army and court.
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Prince William of Prussia
Prince William of Prussia was the Prussian royal who became the first German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, playing a central role in the unification of Germany in 1871.
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C.
Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a 19th-century German prince of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach who, through his mother Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, was closely connected to both the Dutch and German royal families.
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Prince Wilhelm of Baden
Prince Wilhelm of Baden was a German nobleman from the Grand Ducal House of Baden, known primarily as the son of the last Imperial German Chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden.
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E.
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, was an 18th-century German nobleman and ruler known for his military service and governance within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) Target entity description: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) was a Prussian royal general and statesman, the youngest son of King Frederick William II, who played a significant military and political role in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic eras.
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A.
Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846)
Prince Henry of Prussia (1781–1846) was a Prussian prince and military officer of the House of Hohenzollern who served in the Napoleonic Wars and later held various high-ranking positions in the Prussian army and court.
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B.
Prince William of Prussia
Prince William of Prussia was the Prussian royal who became the first German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, playing a central role in the unification of Germany in 1871.
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C.
Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a 19th-century German prince of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach who, through his mother Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, was closely connected to both the Dutch and German royal families.
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D.
Prince Wilhelm of Baden
Prince Wilhelm of Baden was a German nobleman from the Grand Ducal House of Baden, known primarily as the son of the last Imperial German Chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden.
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E.
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, was an 18th-century German nobleman and ruler known for his military service and governance within the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Prussian prince
ⓘ
general ⓘ member of the House of Hohenzollern ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| citizenship | Prussia ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Prussia
ⓘ
linked to:
Prussia
|
| dateOfBirth | 1783-07-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1851-10-28 ⓘ |
| dynasty | House of Hohenzollern ⓘ |
| era |
Napoleonic era
ⓘ
post-Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| father | Frederick William II of Prussia ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilhelm ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Prussian Army ⓘ |
| mother | Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Hohenzollern
ⓘ
linked to:
House of Hohenzollern
|
| nobleTitle | Prince of Prussia ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Berlin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berlin ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Prussian general
ⓘ
Prussian statesman ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
|
| residence | Berlin ⓘ |
| sibling |
Frederick William III of Prussia
ⓘ
linked to:
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia
|
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: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) Description of subject: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) was a Prussian royal general and statesman, the youngest son of King Frederick William II, who played a significant military and political role in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic eras.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851)