James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
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James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick canonical | 26 |
| 1st Duke of Berwick | 2 |
| James FitzJames | 2 |
| Charles FitzJames, 4th Duke of Berwick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T99263 — 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: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Context triple: [Siege of Barcelona (1713–1714), commander, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick]
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A.
Duke of Cumberland
The Duke of Cumberland was a British royal prince and military commander known for his controversial leadership in mid-18th-century European and Jacobite conflicts.
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Duke of Fife
The Duke of Fife is a Scottish noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom historically associated with the Carnegie and later the British royal family.
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C.
Lord Stanley of Preston
Lord Stanley of Preston was a late 19th-century Governor General of Canada best known for donating the trophy that became the Stanley Cup, the championship prize of professional ice hockey.
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D.
Duke of York
The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
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E.
John Russell, Viscount Amberley
John Russell, Viscount Amberley was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and freethinker, notable as the father of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for his progressive views on religion and social issues.
- 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: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Target entity description: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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A.
Duke of Cumberland
The Duke of Cumberland was a British royal prince and military commander known for his controversial leadership in mid-18th-century European and Jacobite conflicts.
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B.
Duke of Fife
The Duke of Fife is a Scottish noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom historically associated with the Carnegie and later the British royal family.
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C.
Lord Stanley of Preston
Lord Stanley of Preston was a late 19th-century Governor General of Canada best known for donating the trophy that became the Stanley Cup, the championship prize of professional ice hockey.
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D.
Duke of York
The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
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E.
John Russell, Viscount Amberley
John Russell, Viscount Amberley was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and freethinker, notable as the father of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for his progressive views on religion and social issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Description of subject: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charles FitzJames, 4th Duke of Berwick
subject surface form:
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
this entity surface form:
1st Duke of Berwick
subject surface form:
James II of England
subject surface form:
James II of England
subject surface form:
James II of England
this entity surface form:
James FitzJames
this entity surface form:
1st Duke of Berwick
this entity surface form:
James FitzJames