Clive
E12753
Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clive canonical | 24 |
| Basil Clive | 1 |
| Richard Clive | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T115093 — 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: Clive Context triple: [Robert Clive, familyName, Clive]
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A.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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B.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
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C.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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D.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
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E.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
- 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: Clive Target entity description: Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
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A.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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B.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
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C.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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D.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
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E.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Clive Description of subject: Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Clive
this entity surface form:
Basil Clive
subject surface form:
John Clive