Duke of York
E11268
British monarch
British prince
hereditary title
member of the British royal family
peerage title
royal dukedom
The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T27543 — 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: Duke of York Context triple: [New York, namedAfter, Duke of York]
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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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Duke of Fife
The Duke of Fife is a Scottish noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom historically associated with the Carnegie and later the British royal family.
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C.
Prince John of the United Kingdom
Prince John of the United Kingdom was the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, known for his secluded upbringing due to epilepsy and his early death at age 13.
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D.
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent was a British royal prince, the fourth son of King George V, who served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force and died in a military air crash during World War II.
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E.
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester was the youngest son of King Charles I of England, a royal prince whose life was marked by the turmoil of the English Civil War and who died young during the Restoration period.
- 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: Duke of York Target entity description: The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
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A.
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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B.
Duke of Fife
The Duke of Fife is a Scottish noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom historically associated with the Carnegie and later the British royal family.
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C.
Prince John of the United Kingdom
Prince John of the United Kingdom was the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, known for his secluded upbringing due to epilepsy and his early death at age 13.
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D.
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent was a British royal prince, the fourth son of King George V, who served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force and died in a military air crash during World War II.
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E.
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester was the youngest son of King Charles I of England, a royal prince whose life was marked by the turmoil of the English Civil War and who died young during the Restoration period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Duke of York Description of subject: The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
Referenced by (113)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
2nd Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York
subject surface form:
New York City
this entity surface form:
James, Duke of York