Charles Vyner Brooke
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Charles Vyner Brooke was the last White Rajah of Sarawak, ruling the kingdom until its cession to the British Crown in 1946.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Brooke | 2 |
| Charles Vyner Brooke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6890492 — 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: Charles Vyner Brooke Context triple: [Brooke family, thirdRuler, Charles Vyner Brooke]
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A.
James Brooke
James Brooke was a 19th-century British adventurer who became the first Rajah of Sarawak, founding the Brooke dynasty that ruled the region for a century.
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B.
Rajah of Sarawak
The Rajah of Sarawak was the hereditary monarch of the Kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo, held by the Brooke family—known as the White Rajahs—from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.
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C.
Raja of Perlis
The Raja of Perlis is the hereditary monarch and constitutional head of state of the Malaysian state of Perlis.
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D.
Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume was a British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist best known as a founding member of the Indian National Congress and an influential figure in late 19th-century colonial India.
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E.
Tunku Kurshiah
Tunku Kurshiah was a Malaysian royal consort who served as the first Raja Permaisuri Agong (Queen) of Malaysia and was the mother of Tuanku Ja’afar.
- 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: Charles Vyner Brooke Target entity description: Charles Vyner Brooke was the last White Rajah of Sarawak, ruling the kingdom until its cession to the British Crown in 1946.
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A.
James Brooke
James Brooke was a 19th-century British adventurer who became the first Rajah of Sarawak, founding the Brooke dynasty that ruled the region for a century.
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B.
Rajah of Sarawak
The Rajah of Sarawak was the hereditary monarch of the Kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo, held by the Brooke family—known as the White Rajahs—from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.
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C.
Raja of Perlis
The Raja of Perlis is the hereditary monarch and constitutional head of state of the Malaysian state of Perlis.
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D.
Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume was a British civil servant, political reformer, and ornithologist best known as a founding member of the Indian National Congress and an influential figure in late 19th-century colonial India.
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E.
Tunku Kurshiah
Tunku Kurshiah was a Malaysian royal consort who served as the first Raja Permaisuri Agong (Queen) of Malaysia and was the mother of Tuanku Ja’afar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rajah of Sarawak
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human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1874-09-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| burialCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Elizabeth Brooke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leonora Margaret Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Valerie Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfNationality | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1963-05-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| educatedAt |
Trinity College, Cambridge
ⓘ
Winchester College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| familyName | Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Charles Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Charles
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Vyner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | His Highness ⓘ |
| lastRulerOf | Kingdom of Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfDynasty | Brooke dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchOf | Kingdom of Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret de Windt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles Vyner Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | ceded Sarawak to the British Crown in 1946 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the last White Rajah of Sarawak ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Rajah of Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Charles Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForCession | post-World War II financial and administrative difficulties ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1946-07-01 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1917-05-24 ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Astana, Kuching
NERFINISHED
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England ⓘ |
| sibling | Bertram Brooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Sylvia Brett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Rajah of Sarawak
NERFINISHED
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White Rajah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Charles Vyner Brooke Description of subject: Charles Vyner Brooke was the last White Rajah of Sarawak, ruling the kingdom until its cession to the British Crown in 1946.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Charles Brooke
this entity surface form:
Charles Brooke