Prince William of Gloucester
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince William of Gloucester canonical | 8 |
| His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester | 1 |
| Prince William, Duke of Gloucester | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T291527 — 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 of Gloucester Context triple: [Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, child, Prince William of Gloucester]
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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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B.
Prince William, Prince of Wales
Prince William, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne and the elder son of King Charles III and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Duke of York
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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Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Gloucester is a British royal dukedom historically granted to younger sons of the monarch, most recently held by Prince Richard, a cousin of King Charles III.
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E.
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was a British prince, military commander, and the tenth child of King George III who served as Viceroy of Hanover in the early 19th 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 of Gloucester Target entity description: 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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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.
Prince William, Prince of Wales
Prince William, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne and the elder son of King Charles III and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
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C.
Duke of York
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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D.
Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Gloucester is a British royal dukedom historically granted to younger sons of the monarch, most recently held by Prince Richard, a cousin of King Charles III.
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E.
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was a British prince, military commander, and the tenth child of King George III who served as Viceroy of Hanover in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 of Gloucester Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester
this entity surface form:
His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester
subject surface form:
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester