Admiral Sir William Penn
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Admiral Sir William Penn was a 17th-century English naval commander who rose to high rank in the Royal Navy and was the father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Admiral Sir William Penn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9927935 — 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: Admiral Sir William Penn Context triple: [Penn family, notableMember, Admiral Sir William Penn]
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A.
Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore was an English nobleman and proprietary governor of Maryland who played a key role in the colony’s early 18th-century political and religious affairs.
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B.
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore was a 17th-century English nobleman and colonial proprietor of Maryland who played a key role in the early governance and development of the colony.
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C.
Albemarle, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
Albemarle, 2nd Earl of Albemarle was a British nobleman and military officer of the 18th century whose prominence led to several places in the American colonies being named in his honor.
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D.
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, was an English statesman and colonial proprietor best known as the founder of the Maryland colony and an early advocate for religious toleration in North America.
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E.
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, was an 18th-century British nobleman and last proprietary governor of the Maryland colony, known for his extravagant lifestyle and controversial reputation.
- 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: Admiral Sir William Penn Target entity description: Admiral Sir William Penn was a 17th-century English naval commander who rose to high rank in the Royal Navy and was the father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
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A.
Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore was an English nobleman and proprietary governor of Maryland who played a key role in the colony’s early 18th-century political and religious affairs.
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B.
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore was a 17th-century English nobleman and colonial proprietor of Maryland who played a key role in the early governance and development of the colony.
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C.
Albemarle, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
Albemarle, 2nd Earl of Albemarle was a British nobleman and military officer of the 18th century whose prominence led to several places in the American colonies being named in his honor.
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D.
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, was an English statesman and colonial proprietor best known as the founder of the Maryland colony and an early advocate for religious toleration in North America.
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E.
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, was an 18th-century British nobleman and last proprietary governor of the Maryland colony, known for his extravagant lifestyle and controversial reputation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Admiral Sir William Penn Description of subject: Admiral Sir William Penn was a 17th-century English naval commander who rose to high rank in the Royal Navy and was the father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.