Nicole de Blois
E921430
Nicole de Blois was a medieval French noblewoman of the House of Penthièvre, associated with the high aristocracy of Brittany.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicole de Blois canonical | 1 |
| Nicole, daughter of Guy of Thouars | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11362163 — 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: Nicole de Blois Context triple: [House of Penthièvre, notableMember, Nicole de Blois]
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Elizabeth of Blois
Elizabeth of Blois was a 12th-century French noblewoman from the influential House of Blois who became Duchess of Apulia through her marriage into the Norman ruling family of southern Italy.
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B.
Margaret de Fiennes
Margaret de Fiennes was an English noblewoman of French descent from the prominent de Fiennes family, best known as the wife of Edmund Mortimer and ancestress of the powerful Mortimer dynasty.
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C.
Ermengarde de Beaumont
Ermengarde de Beaumont was a 13th-century Queen of Scotland as the wife of King William I and the mother of King Alexander II.
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D.
Mary of Clermont
Mary of Clermont was a medieval French noblewoman of the Capetian dynasty, known primarily as the daughter of Robert, Count of Clermont, and a member of the extended royal family of France.
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Alys of France, Countess of Vexin
Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, was a 12th-century French princess whose long-delayed and politically fraught betrothal to Richard the Lionheart made her a central figure in the dynastic struggles between the French and English crowns.
- 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: Nicole de Blois Target entity description: Nicole de Blois was a medieval French noblewoman of the House of Penthièvre, associated with the high aristocracy of Brittany.
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A.
Elizabeth of Blois
Elizabeth of Blois was a 12th-century French noblewoman from the influential House of Blois who became Duchess of Apulia through her marriage into the Norman ruling family of southern Italy.
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B.
Margaret de Fiennes
Margaret de Fiennes was an English noblewoman of French descent from the prominent de Fiennes family, best known as the wife of Edmund Mortimer and ancestress of the powerful Mortimer dynasty.
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C.
Ermengarde de Beaumont
Ermengarde de Beaumont was a 13th-century Queen of Scotland as the wife of King William I and the mother of King Alexander II.
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D.
Mary of Clermont
Mary of Clermont was a medieval French noblewoman of the Capetian dynasty, known primarily as the daughter of Robert, Count of Clermont, and a member of the extended royal family of France.
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E.
Alys of France, Countess of Vexin
Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, was a 12th-century French princess whose long-delayed and politically fraught betrothal to Richard the Lionheart made her a central figure in the dynastic struggles between the French and English crowns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medieval French noblewoman
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noblewoman of Brittany ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Breton people ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | Old French ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Penthièvre ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Penthièvre ⓘ |
| occupation | noblewoman ⓘ |
| region | Brittany ⓘ |
| socialClass | high aristocracy of Brittany ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Nicole de Blois Description of subject: Nicole de Blois was a medieval French noblewoman of the House of Penthièvre, associated with the high aristocracy of Brittany.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nicole de Blois