Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey
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Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer who rose to high command and served as First Naval Lord.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11204032 — 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: Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey Context triple: [Lady Caroline Grey, relative, Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey]
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A.
Admiral Edward Russell
Admiral Edward Russell was a prominent late 17th-century English naval officer and politician, best known for his leadership in major fleet actions against France and his role in securing English maritime power.
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B.
Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe
Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe was a senior British naval officer of the early 20th century who played a key diplomatic role in the Ottoman Empire’s surrender at the end of World War I.
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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.
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe was a British soldier, politician, and peer who served as a distinguished Special Air Service commander in World War II and later as a senior Conservative cabinet minister and Leader of the House of Lords.
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E.
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.
- 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 Frederick William Grey Target entity description: Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer who rose to high command and served as First Naval Lord.
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A.
Admiral Edward Russell
Admiral Edward Russell was a prominent late 17th-century English naval officer and politician, best known for his leadership in major fleet actions against France and his role in securing English maritime power.
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B.
Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe
Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe was a senior British naval officer of the early 20th century who played a key diplomatic role in the Ottoman Empire’s surrender at the end of World War I.
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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.
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe was a British soldier, politician, and peer who served as a distinguished Special Air Service commander in World War II and later as a senior Conservative cabinet minister and Leader of the House of Lords.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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Royal Navy officer ⓘ admiral ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1805-08-23 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Howick, Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Howick, Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | First Opium War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1878-05-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Grey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | naval warfare ⓘ |
| givenName | Frederick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | GCB ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Admiral ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
HMS Caledonia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HMS Endymion NERFINISHED ⓘ HMS Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Grey family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePosition | member of the Board of Admiralty ⓘ |
| notableWork | reform of Royal Navy administration as First Naval Lord ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station
NERFINISHED
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Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station NERFINISHED ⓘ First Naval Lord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotedToRank |
Admiral
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Captain ⓘ Commander ⓘ Lieutenant ⓘ Rear Admiral ⓘ Vice Admiral ⓘ |
| relative | John Grey (brother) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Howick Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1870 ⓘ |
| serviceStartYear | 1819 ⓘ |
| sibling | Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Barbarina Charlotte Sullivan 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: Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey Description of subject: Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer who rose to high command and served as First Naval Lord.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.