Lothair of France
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Lothair of France was a 10th-century Carolingian king who ruled West Francia from 954 to 986, striving to maintain royal authority amid rising feudal powers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lothair of France canonical | 11 |
| Lothair III of West Francia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9727625 — 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: Lothair of France Context triple: [Gerberga of Saxony, child, Lothair of France]
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Lothair I
Lothair I was a 9th-century Holy Roman Emperor and Frankish king whose realm, created by the Treaty of Verdun, laid the groundwork for the later division between France and Germany.
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B.
Lothair II
Lothair II was a 9th-century Carolingian king who ruled Lotharingia and is chiefly remembered for the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful struggle to annul his marriage in order to secure a legitimate heir.
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C.
Louis III of West Francia
Louis III of West Francia was a late 9th-century Carolingian king known for his military victories against Viking invaders and his brief, turbulent reign over part of the Frankish realm.
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Lothair of Supplinburg
Lothair of Supplinburg was a 12th-century German noble who became Holy Roman Emperor (Lothair II), known for his conflicts with the Hohenstaufen dynasty and efforts to strengthen imperial authority in Italy.
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E.
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald was a 9th-century Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor who ruled West Francia and played a key role in the fragmentation of the Carolingian 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: Lothair of France Target entity description: Lothair of France was a 10th-century Carolingian king who ruled West Francia from 954 to 986, striving to maintain royal authority amid rising feudal powers.
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A.
Lothair I
Lothair I was a 9th-century Holy Roman Emperor and Frankish king whose realm, created by the Treaty of Verdun, laid the groundwork for the later division between France and Germany.
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B.
Lothair II
Lothair II was a 9th-century Carolingian king who ruled Lotharingia and is chiefly remembered for the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful struggle to annul his marriage in order to secure a legitimate heir.
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C.
Louis III of West Francia
Louis III of West Francia was a late 9th-century Carolingian king known for his military victories against Viking invaders and his brief, turbulent reign over part of the Frankish realm.
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D.
Lothair of Supplinburg
Lothair of Supplinburg was a 12th-century German noble who became Holy Roman Emperor (Lothair II), known for his conflicts with the Hohenstaufen dynasty and efforts to strengthen imperial authority in Italy.
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E.
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald was a 9th-century Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor who ruled West Francia and played a key role in the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lothair of France Description of subject: Lothair of France was a 10th-century Carolingian king who ruled West Francia from 954 to 986, striving to maintain royal authority amid rising feudal powers.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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