Francis, Duke of Teck
E45846
Francis, Duke of Teck was a German-born nobleman of the House of Württemberg who became a British royal by marriage and was the father of Queen Mary, consort of King George V.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Francis, Duke of Teck canonical | 23 |
| Duke of Teck | 9 |
| Francis, Duke of Teck – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge | 1 |
| Maurice Francis George of Teck | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171655 — 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: Francis, Duke of Teck Context triple: [Mary of Teck, father, Francis, Duke of Teck]
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the German-born husband of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, known for his influence on British public life, education, and the arts in the 19th century.
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Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent was a British royal prince, the fourth son of King George V, who served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force and died in a military air crash during World War II.
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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.
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was a British prince and military officer best known as the father of Queen Victoria and the fourth son of King George III.
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E.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Prince Andrew, Duke of York is a British royal, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, known for his military service as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot and his later controversial public life.
- 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: Francis, Duke of Teck Target entity description: Francis, Duke of Teck was a German-born nobleman of the House of Württemberg who became a British royal by marriage and was the father of Queen Mary, consort of King George V.
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A.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the German-born husband of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, known for his influence on British public life, education, and the arts in the 19th century.
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B.
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent was a British royal prince, the fourth son of King George V, who served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force and died in a military air crash during World War II.
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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.
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was a British prince and military officer best known as the father of Queen Victoria and the fourth son of King George III.
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E.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Prince Andrew, Duke of York is a British royal, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, known for his military service as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot and his later controversial public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Francis, Duke of Teck Description of subject: Francis, Duke of Teck was a German-born nobleman of the House of Württemberg who became a British royal by marriage and was the father of Queen Mary, consort of King George V.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
this entity surface form:
Francis, Duke of Teck – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
subject surface form:
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
subject surface form:
Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck
subject surface form:
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
this entity surface form:
Maurice Francis George of Teck
this entity surface form:
Duke of Teck