Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas
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Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas was a 19th-century British naval officer best known for his command roles in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7078904 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas Context triple: [Bombardment of Sveaborg, commanderAttacker, Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas]
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A.
Admiral Sir Charles Madden
Admiral Sir Charles Madden was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to become First Sea Lord and played a key command role in the British fleet during the early 20th century, including World War I.
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B.
Admiral Sir Henry Leach
Admiral Sir Henry Leach was a senior Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord best known for his decisive role in advocating for and directing the British naval response during the Falklands War.
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C.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for his decisive victory over the French fleet at the Battle of San Domingo during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Admiral James Gambier
Admiral James Gambier was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral who served in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his roles in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
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E.
Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis
Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis was a British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas Target entity description: Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas was a 19th-century British naval officer best known for his command roles in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War.
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A.
Admiral Sir Charles Madden
Admiral Sir Charles Madden was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to become First Sea Lord and played a key command role in the British fleet during the early 20th century, including World War I.
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B.
Admiral Sir Henry Leach
Admiral Sir Henry Leach was a senior Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord best known for his decisive role in advocating for and directing the British naval response during the Falklands War.
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C.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for his decisive victory over the French fleet at the Battle of San Domingo during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Admiral James Gambier
Admiral James Gambier was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral who served in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his roles in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
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E.
Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis
Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis was a British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
NERFINISHED
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Order of the Medjidie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1802-04-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | England ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kensal Green Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| commanded |
Baltic Fleet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HMS Powerful NERFINISHED ⓘ HMS Prince Regent NERFINISHED ⓘ HMS Sans Pareil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Baltic Sea campaign of the Crimean War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crimean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1861-06-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| educatedAt | Royal Naval College, Portsmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Dundas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Board of Admiralty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Saunders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Rear Admiral ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | The Honourable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of the Baltic Fleet during the Crimean War ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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naval officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Naval Lord
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Second Naval Lord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotedToCaptainYear | 1830 ⓘ |
| promotedToRearAdmiralYear | 1854 ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| serviceEntryYear | 1817 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas Description of subject: Rear Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas was a 19th-century British naval officer best known for his command roles in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.