Lord Augustus FitzRoy
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Lord Augustus FitzRoy was an 18th-century British naval officer and aristocrat, notable as a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Grafton and a member of the prominent FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Augustus FitzRoy canonical | 3 |
| Augustus Henry FitzRoy | 1 |
| Lord Charles FitzRoy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T326358 — 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: Lord Augustus FitzRoy Context triple: [Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, father, Lord Augustus FitzRoy]
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A.
Prince Alfred of Great Britain
Prince Alfred of Great Britain was a short-lived son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, remembered primarily as one of the younger royal children who died in infancy.
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B.
Edward FitzRoy
Edward FitzRoy was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943, overseeing Parliament through much of the interwar period and the early years of World War II.
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C.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
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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D.
William Wellesley-Pole
William Wellesley-Pole was a British politician and nobleman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his senior governmental roles and as a member of the influential Wellesley family that included the Duke of Wellington.
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E.
Lord Barham
Lord Barham was a British naval commander and statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his leadership and administrative reforms in the Royal Navy.
- 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: Lord Augustus FitzRoy Target entity description: Lord Augustus FitzRoy was an 18th-century British naval officer and aristocrat, notable as a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Grafton and a member of the prominent FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
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A.
Prince Alfred of Great Britain
Prince Alfred of Great Britain was a short-lived son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, remembered primarily as one of the younger royal children who died in infancy.
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B.
Edward FitzRoy
Edward FitzRoy was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943, overseeing Parliament through much of the interwar period and the early years of World War II.
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C.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
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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D.
William Wellesley-Pole
William Wellesley-Pole was a British politician and nobleman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his senior governmental roles and as a member of the influential Wellesley family that included the Duke of Wellington.
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E.
Lord Barham
Lord Barham was a British naval commander and statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his leadership and administrative reforms in the Royal Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
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British naval officer ⓘ younger son of a duke ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| descent |
descendant of King Charles II of England
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descendant of the House of Stuart ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzRoy ⓘ |
| father |
The Duke of Grafton
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surface form:
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Augustus ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | FitzRoy family ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
FitzRoy family
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Fitz-James Stuart family ⓘ
surface form:
House of Stuart (illegitimate branch)
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| nobleTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Grafton
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membership in the prominent FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II ⓘ service as an officer in the Royal Navy in the 18th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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naval officer ⓘ |
| paternalAncestor |
Charles II of England
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surface form:
King Charles II of England
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| paternalFamilyName | FitzRoy ⓘ |
| paternalLineage | House of Grafton ⓘ |
| socialClass | British nobility ⓘ |
| style | Lord ⓘ |
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: Lord Augustus FitzRoy Description of subject: Lord Augustus FitzRoy was an 18th-century British naval officer and aristocrat, notable as a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Grafton and a member of the prominent FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)
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father
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Lord Augustus FitzRoy
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subject surface form:
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)
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child
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Lord Augustus FitzRoy
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subject surface form:
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
this entity surface form:
Lord Charles FitzRoy
this entity surface form:
Augustus Henry FitzRoy