Alan III, Duke of Brittany
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Alan III, Duke of Brittany was an 11th-century Breton noble who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of northwestern France during the early Middle Ages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan III, Duke of Brittany canonical | 10 |
| Alan III of Brittany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11362067 — 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: Alan III, Duke of Brittany Context triple: [House of Rennes, hasMember, Alan III, Duke of Brittany]
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Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
Alan IV, Duke of Brittany was an 11th–12th century Breton ruler known for his participation in the First Crusade and his role in consolidating ducal authority in Brittany.
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Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany was a 15th-century Breton nobleman and military leader who served as Constable of France and played a key role in the later stages of the Hundred Years’ War.
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John V, Duke of Brittany
John V, Duke of Brittany was a 15th-century Breton ruler who consolidated ducal authority, navigated complex alliances during the Hundred Years’ War, and fostered relative stability and prosperity in his duchy.
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Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
Arthur II, Duke of Brittany was a late 13th- and early 14th-century Breton ruler from the House of Dreux who governed the Duchy of Brittany under French suzerainty and navigated complex feudal and dynastic politics of medieval France.
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John I, Duke of Brittany
John I, Duke of Brittany was a 13th-century Breton nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of medieval France.
- 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: Alan III, Duke of Brittany Target entity description: Alan III, Duke of Brittany was an 11th-century Breton noble who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of northwestern France during the early Middle Ages.
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A.
Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
Alan IV, Duke of Brittany was an 11th–12th century Breton ruler known for his participation in the First Crusade and his role in consolidating ducal authority in Brittany.
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B.
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany was a 15th-century Breton nobleman and military leader who served as Constable of France and played a key role in the later stages of the Hundred Years’ War.
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C.
John V, Duke of Brittany
John V, Duke of Brittany was a 15th-century Breton ruler who consolidated ducal authority, navigated complex alliances during the Hundred Years’ War, and fostered relative stability and prosperity in his duchy.
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D.
Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
Arthur II, Duke of Brittany was a late 13th- and early 14th-century Breton ruler from the House of Dreux who governed the Duchy of Brittany under French suzerainty and navigated complex feudal and dynastic politics of medieval France.
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E.
John I, Duke of Brittany
John I, Duke of Brittany was a 13th-century Breton nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of medieval France.
- 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: Alan III, Duke of Brittany Description of subject: Alan III, Duke of Brittany was an 11th-century Breton noble who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of northwestern France during the early Middle Ages.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alan III, Duke of Brittany