Henry FitzClarence
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Henry FitzClarence was an illegitimate son of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom and the actress Dorothea Jordan, belonging to the FitzClarence family of royal bastards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry FitzClarence canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11520797 — 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: Henry FitzClarence Context triple: [Dorothea Jordan, child, Henry FitzClarence]
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A.
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, was a British royal prince and military officer, a nephew of King George III, known for his prominent position within the Hanoverian royal family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a British royal prince, the third son of King George V, who served as a senior member of the royal family and briefly as Governor-General of Australia.
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C.
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester was a British royal, the adventurous and popular eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as a diplomat and pilot before dying in a plane crash in 1972.
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D.
Lord Frederick Windsor
Lord Frederick Windsor is a British financial analyst and minor royal, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and a first cousin once removed of King Charles III.
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E.
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.
- 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: Henry FitzClarence Target entity description: Henry FitzClarence was an illegitimate son of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom and the actress Dorothea Jordan, belonging to the FitzClarence family of royal bastards.
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A.
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, was a British royal prince and military officer, a nephew of King George III, known for his prominent position within the Hanoverian royal family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a British royal prince, the third son of King George V, who served as a senior member of the royal family and briefly as Governor-General of Australia.
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C.
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester was a British royal, the adventurous and popular eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as a diplomat and pilot before dying in a plane crash in 1972.
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D.
Lord Frederick Windsor
Lord Frederick Windsor is a British financial analyst and minor royal, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and a first cousin once removed of King Charles III.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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illegitimate child ⓘ |
| associatedWith | British royal court ⓘ |
| birthOrderWithinFitzClarenceChildren | one of ten illegitimate children of William IV and Dorothea Jordan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| descent |
Hanoverian dynasty
NERFINISHED
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Irish (through Dorothea Jordan) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzClarence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | William IV of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | FitzClarence family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Dorothea Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | House of Hanover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notLegitimateHeirTo | British throne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | British royal illegitimate descendants ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfather | George III of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paternalGrandmother | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Amelia FitzClarence
NERFINISHED
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Augusta FitzClarence NERFINISHED ⓘ Augusta Leigh (through FitzClarence-Jordan connections) NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth FitzClarence NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick FitzClarence NERFINISHED ⓘ George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary FitzClarence NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophia FitzClarence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of British aristocratic society ⓘ |
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: Henry FitzClarence Description of subject: Henry FitzClarence was an illegitimate son of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom and the actress Dorothea Jordan, belonging to the FitzClarence family of royal bastards.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.