Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts

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British Army officer Victoria Cross recipient person

Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts was a British Army officer and the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Boer War.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts canonical	12
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts	4
Frederick Roberts	2
Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts VC	2

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British Army officer ⓘ Victoria Cross recipient ⓘ person ⓘ
allegiance	United Kingdom ⓘ
awardReceived	Queen's South Africa Medal ⓘ The Victoria Cross ⓘ surface form: Victoria Cross
burialPlace	Chieveley Military Cemetery, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ⓘ
causeOfDeath	wounds received in action ⓘ
commemoratedOn	Commonwealth War Graves Commission records ⓘ
commissionedInto	King's Royal Rifle Corps ⓘ
conflict	Second Boer War ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1872-01-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1899-12-17 ⓘ
education	Eton College ⓘ Royal Military College, Sandhurst ⓘ
familyName	Roberts ⓘ
father	Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ⓘ
fullName	Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts self-link ⓘ
givenName	Frederick ⓘ
honorificSuffix	VC ⓘ
mannerOfDeath	killed in action ⓘ
memorial	Memorial at Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks ⓘ Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, London ⓘ Memorial in Winchester Cathedral ⓘ
militaryBranch	British Army ⓘ
militaryRank	lieutenant ⓘ
mother	Nora Henrietta Bews Roberts ⓘ
nationality	British ⓘ
notableBattle	Battle of Colenso ⓘ
notableFor	being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross in the Second Boer War ⓘ being the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts to be killed in action ⓘ
onlyChildOf	Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ⓘ
onlySonOf	Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Umballa, British India ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Chieveley, Natal, South Africa ⓘ
posthumousAward	The Victoria Cross ⓘ surface form: Victoria Cross
reasonForAward	bravery under fire while attempting to save artillery guns at Colenso ⓘ
regiment	King's Royal Rifle Corps ⓘ surface form: 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
religion	Anglican ⓘ
servedIn	India ⓘ South Africa ⓘ
theatreOfOperations	South Africa ⓘ
unit	King's Royal Rifle Corps ⓘ
yearOfCommission	1891 ⓘ

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: Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
Description of subject: Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts was a British Army officer and the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Boer War.

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lord Roberts → parentOf → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

British Indian Army → notableCommander → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

Boer Wars → notableCommander → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frederick Roberts

Second Anglo-Afghan War → commander → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frederick Roberts

Baron Roberts → namedAfter → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

Baron Roberts → hasTitleHolder → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

Baron Roberts → notableTitleHolder → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts → fullName → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts self-link ⓘ

Nora Henrietta Bews Roberts → hasChild → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Chieveley Military Cemetery, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa → containsGraveOf → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Chieveley Military Cemetery, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa → notableBurial → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Memorial in Winchester Cathedral → commemorates → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Memorial in Winchester Cathedral → honours → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Memorial in Winchester Cathedral → dedicatedTo → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Memorial in Winchester Cathedral → hasSubjectName → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Memorial at Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks → commemorates → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts VC

Memorial at Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks → honours → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

Memorial at Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks → dedicatedTo → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts VC

Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts → child → Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts ⓘ