Duke Frederick
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Duke Frederick is the usurping, tyrannical ruler and central antagonist in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy "As You Like It."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duke Frederick canonical | 8 |
| Duke Frederick (earlier in the play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110137 — 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: Duke Frederick Context triple: [As You Like It, featuresCharacter, Duke Frederick]
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A.
Clarence Threepwood
Clarence Threepwood is the absent-minded, amiable Earl of Emsworth who appears as the bumbling aristocratic protagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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B.
Lord Edmund
Lord Edmund was the noble style used by Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, a prominent 13th-century English prince and younger son of King Henry III.
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C.
Edward Kent
Edward Kent was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maine and later as a U.S. diplomat.
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D.
Duke of Buckingham
The Duke of Buckingham is a powerful and romantic English nobleman whose secret love affair with Queen Anne drives much of the political intrigue in Alexandre Dumas’s novel *The Three Musketeers*.
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E.
Duke of Clarence and Avondale
The Duke of Clarence and Avondale was a British royal dukedom most notably held by Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the future King Edward VII and a one-time second in line to the throne.
- 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: Duke Frederick Target entity description: Duke Frederick is the usurping, tyrannical ruler and central antagonist in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy "As You Like It."
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A.
Clarence Threepwood
Clarence Threepwood is the absent-minded, amiable Earl of Emsworth who appears as the bumbling aristocratic protagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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B.
Lord Edmund
Lord Edmund was the noble style used by Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, a prominent 13th-century English prince and younger son of King Henry III.
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C.
Edward Kent
Edward Kent was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maine and later as a U.S. diplomat.
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D.
Duke of Buckingham
The Duke of Buckingham is a powerful and romantic English nobleman whose secret love affair with Queen Anne drives much of the political intrigue in Alexandre Dumas’s novel *The Three Musketeers*.
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E.
Duke of Clarence and Avondale
The Duke of Clarence and Avondale was a British royal dukedom most notably held by Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the future King Edward VII and a one-time second in line to the throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
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duke ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| actionAtEndOfPlay |
restores the dukedom to Duke Senior
ⓘ
retires to a religious life ⓘ |
| appearsIn | As You Like It ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | court ⓘ |
| banishes |
Duke Senior
ⓘ
Rosalind ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Duke Senior ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| describedAs |
central antagonist
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tyrannical ⓘ usurping ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | pastoral comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| medium | play ⓘ |
| ordersExileOf | Orlando ⓘ |
| parentOf | Celia ⓘ |
| relative | Duke Senior ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | Duchy in a vaguely medieval or Renaissance era ⓘ |
| uncleOf | Rosalind ⓘ |
| undergoes | sudden religious conversion ⓘ |
| usurps | Duke Senior ⓘ |
| workFirstPublished | As You Like It, c. 1600 ⓘ |
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: Duke Frederick Description of subject: Duke Frederick is the usurping, tyrannical ruler and central antagonist in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy "As You Like It."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Duke Frederick