William the Conqueror
William I (c. 1028 - 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.
Some initial clues:
- Looks like we're dealing with Somebody the Epithet.
- The initial parenthesis section for people is basically always dates, with "xx month xxxx" style things typically pretty easy to pick out. Here it seems likely we are dealing with someone who is dead, and whose birth date is not precisely known, so though they lived in a time of 4-digit years it probably wasn't very recent.
- Unusual blocks like the one-character second word can be big signals. For a person, and especially Somebody the Epithet, it's hard to imagine what this could be except "I", "V", or "X" in the mostly-European monarch style.
- The title is likely to appear very early in some form in the first paragraph. Counting characters (easy to do in real Redactle) and looking for "the" in the middle, it seems to be the section coming after "as".
William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet)
William(firstname) I(numeral) (c. 1028 - 9 September 1087)(period alive), usually known as William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet) and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.
Wikipedia likes to tell us certain things in the first paragraph. Our title coming after "five-letter-word as" makes that almost certainly "known as" with some descriptor like "also" or "commonly" preceding it. (While I'll mark these confidently here, one can continue without actually guessing them in the tool.)
William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet)
William(firstname) I(numeral) (c. 1028 - 9 September 1087)(period alive), usually known as William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet) and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.
Continuing on things Wikipedia likes to tell us in the first paragraph: from the Roman numeral, we're pretty sure this is a king, queen, or maybe a pope or something. That's a huge aspect of why they're important so it will want to tell us that very early, as well as when and what they ruled, and we're not spoiled for choice. Some use of a two-letter word in later sentences (not pictured) also made me believe this is probably a "he" rather than "she".
William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet)
William(firstname) I(numeral) (c. 1028 - 9 September 1087)(period alive), usually known as William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet) and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England(kingdom), reigning from 1066(year) until his death in 1087(year).
We have a two-word phrase modifying "king". The first one is five letters. This is a bit less confident, but:
William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet)
William(firstname) I(numeral) (c. 1028 - 9 September 1087)(period alive), usually known as William(firstname) the Conqueror(epithet) and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman(ethnicity or dynasty name?) king of England(kingdom), reigning from 1066(year) until his death in 1087(year).
Eventually it can become useful that the topics are usually not obscure - I figured there was a decent chance the early seven-letter kingdom was
England, and out of its better-known historical monarchs there's a clear fit.