Sir Edward Codrington
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Sir Edward Codrington was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral best known for his role as a commander at the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir Edward Codrington canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5660940 — 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: Sir Edward Codrington Context triple: [St Peter’s Church, Dyrham, Gloucestershire, hasBurial, Sir Edward Codrington]
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A.
Admiral Sir Charles Madden
Admiral Sir Charles Madden was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to become First Sea Lord and played a key command role in the British fleet during the early 20th century, including World War I.
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B.
Admiral Sir Charles Napier
Admiral Sir Charles Napier was a prominent 19th-century British naval officer known for his aggressive leadership and service in conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars, the Syrian campaign, and the Crimean War.
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C.
Admiral Sir Henry Leach
Admiral Sir Henry Leach was a senior Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord best known for his decisive role in advocating for and directing the British naval response during the Falklands War.
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D.
Admiral James Gambier
Admiral James Gambier was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral who served in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his roles in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
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E.
Captain Sir James Saumarez
Captain Sir James Saumarez was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer and admiral renowned for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic 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: Sir Edward Codrington Target entity description: Sir Edward Codrington was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral best known for his role as a commander at the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence.
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A.
Admiral Sir Charles Madden
Admiral Sir Charles Madden was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to become First Sea Lord and played a key command role in the British fleet during the early 20th century, including World War I.
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B.
Admiral Sir Charles Napier
Admiral Sir Charles Napier was a prominent 19th-century British naval officer known for his aggressive leadership and service in conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars, the Syrian campaign, and the Crimean War.
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C.
Admiral Sir Henry Leach
Admiral Sir Henry Leach was a senior Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord best known for his decisive role in advocating for and directing the British naval response during the Falklands War.
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D.
Admiral James Gambier
Admiral James Gambier was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral who served in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his roles in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
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E.
Captain Sir James Saumarez
Captain Sir James Saumarez was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer and admiral renowned for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Order of St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of the Redeemer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Navarino
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Trafalgar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1770-04-27 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Peter’s Church, Dyrham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Henry John Codrington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sir William Codrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Greek War of Independence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1851-04-28 ⓘ |
| education | Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electedIn |
1832
ⓘ
1835 ⓘ |
| familyName | Codrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| memberOf | British House of Commons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Admiral ⓘ |
| name | Sir Edward Codrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Led combined British-French-Russian fleet at Navarino ⓘ |
| notableWork | Command at the Battle of Navarino ⓘ |
| occupation |
admiral
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naval officer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dodington, Gloucestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Eaton Square, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander-in-chief, Mediterranean Fleet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Member of Parliament for Devonport ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1845 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1783 ⓘ |
| shipCommanded |
HMS Asia
NERFINISHED
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HMS Orion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| side | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sir Edward Codrington Description of subject: Sir Edward Codrington was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral best known for his role as a commander at the Battle of Navarino during the Greek War of Independence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.