William Augustus
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William Augustus, better known as Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, was an 18th-century British royal and military commander noted for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Augustus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5807147 — 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: William Augustus Context triple: [Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, fullName, William Augustus]
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A.
George William
George William was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Welf who ruled the Principality of Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
John James
John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
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C.
John William
John William is the given name of John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz, a Dutch prince who was a key ancestor of the modern Dutch royal family.
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D.
Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
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E.
William Alexander
William Alexander was the full name of William IV, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg who ruled from 1905 to 1912.
- 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: William Augustus Target entity description: William Augustus, better known as Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, was an 18th-century British royal and military commander noted for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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A.
George William
George William was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Welf who ruled the Principality of Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
John James
John James was an early 18th-century English architect known for designing several notable London churches in the Baroque and Palladian styles.
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C.
John William
John William is the given name of John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz, a Dutch prince who was a key ancestor of the modern Dutch royal family.
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D.
Thomas James
Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
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E.
William Alexander
William Alexander was the full name of William IV, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg who ruled from 1905 to 1912.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British prince
ⓘ
human ⓘ military commander ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baptismPlace | St James’s Palace, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1721-04-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Leicester House, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfNickname | harsh repression after the Battle of Culloden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1765-10-31 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | privately educated as a British prince ⓘ |
| father | George II of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Augustus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William ⓘ |
| hasNoChildren | true ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | His Royal Highness ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | never married ⓘ |
| memberOf | British royal family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Field Marshal ⓘ |
| mother | Caroline of Ansbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Butcher Cumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Duke of Cumberland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prince of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
command at the Battle of Culloden
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command in the Battle of Fontenoy ⓘ command in the Battle of Lauffeld ⓘ service in the War of the Austrian Succession ⓘ suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Culloden
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Dettingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Fontenoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Lauffeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacobite rising of 1745 NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Austrian Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Westminster Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Baron Alderney
NERFINISHED
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Captain-General of the British Army ⓘ Chancellor of the University of Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ Duke of Cumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ Earl of Kennington NERFINISHED ⓘ Ranger of Windsor Great Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Viscount Trematon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| royalHouse | House of Hanover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
NERFINISHED
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Frederick, Prince of Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Amelia of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Caroline of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Mary of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William Augustus Description of subject: William Augustus, better known as Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, was an 18th-century British royal and military commander noted for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.