Hoël of Cornouaille
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Hoël of Cornouaille was an 11th-century Breton nobleman who became Duke of Brittany and played a key role in the region’s medieval political consolidation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hoël of Cornouaille canonical | 3 |
| Hoel of Brittany | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11362108 — 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: Hoël of Cornouaille Context triple: [House of Cornouaille, notableMember, Hoël of Cornouaille]
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A.
Brian of Brittany
Brian of Brittany was an 11th-century Breton nobleman and military leader who served William the Conqueror and became a prominent Anglo-Norman magnate in England.
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B.
Conan I of Rennes
Conan I of Rennes was a 10th-century Breton noble who became Duke of Brittany and played a key role in consolidating ducal authority in the region.
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C.
King of Brittany
The King of Brittany was the medieval sovereign ruler of the historical region of Brittany in western France, preceding the later ducal authority.
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D.
Saint Audomar
Saint Audomar, also known as Saint Omer, was a 7th-century Frankish bishop and missionary credited with evangelizing the region around present-day Saint-Omer in northern France.
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E.
Salomon of Brittany
Salomon of Brittany was a 9th-century ruler who consolidated Breton independence and power in western France before being assassinated in 874.
- 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: Hoël of Cornouaille Target entity description: Hoël of Cornouaille was an 11th-century Breton nobleman who became Duke of Brittany and played a key role in the region’s medieval political consolidation.
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A.
Brian of Brittany
Brian of Brittany was an 11th-century Breton nobleman and military leader who served William the Conqueror and became a prominent Anglo-Norman magnate in England.
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B.
Conan I of Rennes
Conan I of Rennes was a 10th-century Breton noble who became Duke of Brittany and played a key role in consolidating ducal authority in the region.
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C.
King of Brittany
The King of Brittany was the medieval sovereign ruler of the historical region of Brittany in western France, preceding the later ducal authority.
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D.
Saint Audomar
Saint Audomar, also known as Saint Omer, was a 7th-century Frankish bishop and missionary credited with evangelizing the region around present-day Saint-Omer in northern France.
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E.
Salomon of Brittany
Salomon of Brittany was a 9th-century ruler who consolidated Breton independence and power in western France before being assassinated in 874.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Hoël of Cornouaille Description of subject: Hoël of Cornouaille was an 11th-century Breton nobleman who became Duke of Brittany and played a key role in the region’s medieval political consolidation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hoël of Cornouaille
linked to: Hoël of Cornouaille