Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
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Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince William, Duke of Cumberland canonical | 28 |
| Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland | 2 |
| Prince William Augustus | 1 |
| William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T678920 — 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: Prince William, Duke of Cumberland Context triple: [Prince William County, Virginia, namedAfter, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]
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A.
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester was a British royal, the adventurous and popular eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as a diplomat and pilot before dying in a plane crash in 1972.
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Prince William, Prince of Wales
Prince William, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne and the elder son of King Charles III and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
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C.
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was a British prince, military commander, and the tenth child of King George III who served as Viceroy of Hanover in the early 19th century.
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D.
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews is a British peer and member of the extended royal family, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and a grandson of King George V.
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E.
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine was an 18th-century Austrian field marshal and governor of the Austrian Netherlands, best known for his role as a Habsburg commander during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
- 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: Prince William, Duke of Cumberland Target entity description: Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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A.
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester was a British royal, the adventurous and popular eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as a diplomat and pilot before dying in a plane crash in 1972.
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B.
Prince William, Prince of Wales
Prince William, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne and the elder son of King Charles III and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
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C.
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was a British prince, military commander, and the tenth child of King George III who served as Viceroy of Hanover in the early 19th century.
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D.
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews is a British peer and member of the extended royal family, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and a grandson of King George V.
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E.
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine was an 18th-century Austrian field marshal and governor of the Austrian Netherlands, best known for his role as a Habsburg commander during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Prince William, Duke of Cumberland Description of subject: Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
this entity surface form:
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
this entity surface form:
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
this entity surface form:
Prince William Augustus
subject surface form:
Cumberland County, New Jersey
subject surface form:
Princess Amelia of Great Britain
subject surface form:
Caroline of Great Britain
Caroline of Ansbach (as Princess of Wales to Queen consort)
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child
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Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
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subject surface form:
Caroline of Ansbach
subject surface form:
Eclipse
subject surface form:
Eclipse