Admiral Sir William Cornwallis
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Admiral Sir William Cornwallis was a distinguished Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his leadership during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
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| Admiral Sir William Cornwallis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2624226 — 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 Cornwallis Context triple: [British Channel Fleet, notableCommander, Admiral Sir William Cornwallis]
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A.
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot was a British Royal Navy officer of the 18th century best known for his command roles in the American Revolutionary War, particularly in major naval operations along the North American coast.
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B.
Admiral George Delaval
Admiral George Delaval was a British naval officer and diplomat of the early 18th century who amassed wealth and status that enabled him to commission grand architectural projects and establish the Delaval family seat in Northumberland.
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C.
Edward Boscawen
Edward Boscawen was an 18th-century British admiral renowned for his aggressive naval leadership during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Admiral Augustus Keppel
Admiral Augustus Keppel was an 18th-century British naval officer and politician best known for his controversial command during the American War of Independence and subsequent high-profile court-martial.
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E.
Admiral Samuel Hood
Admiral Samuel Hood was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and fleet commander renowned for his leadership in major naval engagements of the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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: Admiral Sir William Cornwallis Target entity description: Admiral Sir William Cornwallis was a distinguished Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his leadership during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot
Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot was a British Royal Navy officer of the 18th century best known for his command roles in the American Revolutionary War, particularly in major naval operations along the North American coast.
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B.
Admiral George Delaval
Admiral George Delaval was a British naval officer and diplomat of the early 18th century who amassed wealth and status that enabled him to commission grand architectural projects and establish the Delaval family seat in Northumberland.
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C.
Edward Boscawen
Edward Boscawen was an 18th-century British admiral renowned for his aggressive naval leadership during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Admiral Augustus Keppel
Admiral Augustus Keppel was an 18th-century British naval officer and politician best known for his controversial command during the American War of Independence and subsequent high-profile court-martial.
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E.
Admiral Samuel Hood
Admiral Samuel Hood was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and fleet commander renowned for his leadership in major naval engagements of the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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: Admiral Sir William Cornwallis Description of subject: Admiral Sir William Cornwallis was a distinguished Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his leadership during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.