Lord William FitzRoy
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Lord William FitzRoy was a British Royal Navy officer and aristocrat of the early 19th century, known for his service during the Napoleonic Wars and his prominent position within the British nobility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord William FitzRoy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9153737 — 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 William FitzRoy Context triple: [FitzRoy family, hasNotableMember, Lord William FitzRoy]
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A.
Lord Charles FitzRoy
Lord Charles FitzRoy was a British aristocrat and politician from the prominent FitzRoy family, connected to the Dukes of Grafton.
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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.
Lord Augustus FitzRoy
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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D.
Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence
Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence—later King William IV of the United Kingdom—was a British royal and former naval officer who reigned from 1830 to 1837.
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E.
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, was the acknowledged illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England, elevated to high noble rank and once considered a potential heir 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: Lord William FitzRoy Target entity description: Lord William FitzRoy was a British Royal Navy officer and aristocrat of the early 19th century, known for his service during the Napoleonic Wars and his prominent position within the British nobility.
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A.
Lord Charles FitzRoy
Lord Charles FitzRoy was a British aristocrat and politician from the prominent FitzRoy family, connected to the Dukes of Grafton.
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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.
Lord Augustus FitzRoy
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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D.
Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence
Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence—later King William IV of the United Kingdom—was a British royal and former naval officer who reigned from 1830 to 1837.
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E.
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, was the acknowledged illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England, elevated to high noble rank and once considered a potential heir to the throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British naval officer
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aristocrat ⓘ person ⓘ younger son of a duke ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1782-06-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| conflict |
French Revolutionary Wars
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Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1857-10-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | early 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzRoy ⓘ |
| father | Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of FitzRoy ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| mother |
Anne Liddell, Duchess of Grafton
ⓘ
linked to:
Duchess of Grafton
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| nobleStatus | British nobility ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval officer
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politician ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody | House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lord of the Admiralty
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Member of Parliament ⓘ |
| sibling |
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
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Lord Charles FitzRoy ⓘ |
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 William FitzRoy Description of subject: Lord William FitzRoy was a British Royal Navy officer and aristocrat of the early 19th century, known for his service during the Napoleonic Wars and his prominent position within the British nobility.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.