Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence
E278711
British naval officer
Duke of Clarence and St Andrews
King of the United Kingdom
human
member of the House of Hanover
monarch
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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1643489 — 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: Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence Context triple: [Clarence House, builtFor, Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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D.
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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E.
Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany was a British royal prince, the younger brother of King George III, and a naval officer in the 18th century.
- 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: Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was an 18th-century British royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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D.
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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E.
Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany was a British royal prince, the younger brother of King George III, and a naval officer in the 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Clarence House (Grenada)