1st Viscount Keppel
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1st Viscount Keppel was a prominent 18th-century British admiral and politician, known for his service in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viscount Keppel | 3 |
| 1st Viscount Keppel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9949190 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1st Viscount Keppel Context triple: [Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, title, 1st Viscount Keppel]
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A.
William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle
William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, was a British aristocrat, soldier, and Liberal politician of the 19th century who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and military appointments.
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B.
George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle
George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle, was a 19th-century British soldier, politician, and courtier known for his military service during the Napoleonic Wars and his later role as a Whig Member of Parliament.
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C.
1st Viscount Melville
1st Viscount Melville was Henry Dundas, a powerful late 18th- and early 19th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who dominated Scottish politics and served as a key minister in the British government under William Pitt the Younger.
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D.
William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle
William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle, was a British aristocrat and Whig politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various public offices in the early 19th century.
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E.
Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth was an influential early 18th-century British Whig politician and Cornish landowner who was elevated to the peerage for his political services.
- 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: 1st Viscount Keppel Target entity description: 1st Viscount Keppel was a prominent 18th-century British admiral and politician, known for his service in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence.
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A.
William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle
William Coutts Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, was a British aristocrat, soldier, and Liberal politician of the 19th century who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and military appointments.
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B.
George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle
George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle, was a 19th-century British soldier, politician, and courtier known for his military service during the Napoleonic Wars and his later role as a Whig Member of Parliament.
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C.
1st Viscount Melville
1st Viscount Melville was Henry Dundas, a powerful late 18th- and early 19th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who dominated Scottish politics and served as a key minister in the British government under William Pitt the Younger.
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D.
William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle
William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle, was a British aristocrat and Whig politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various public offices in the early 19th century.
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E.
Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth was an influential early 18th-century British Whig politician and Cornish landowner who was elevated to the peerage for his political services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British admiral
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human ⓘ peer of Great Britain ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allegiance | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1725-04-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| commanded | Channel Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
American War of Independence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Falklands Crisis of 1770 NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Years' War ⓘ War of the Austrian Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdPeerageTitleBy | King George III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1786-10-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Elveden Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ennobledIn | 1782 ⓘ |
| familyName | Keppel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Augustus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Keppel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Lords
ⓘ
Whig Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Admiral ⓘ |
| mother | Lady Anne Lennox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Augustus Keppel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Baron Keppel
NERFINISHED
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Viscount Keppel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattle | Battle of Ushant (1778) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command in the Seven Years' War
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court-martial and acquittal after the Battle of Ushant ⓘ role in the American War of Independence ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval officer
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politician ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituencyRepresented |
Chichester
NERFINISHED
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New Windsor NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Lord of the Admiralty
NERFINISHED
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Lord of the Admiralty NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of Parliament ⓘ |
| promotedToRank |
Admiral of the Blue
NERFINISHED
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Admiral of the White NERFINISHED ⓘ Rear Admiral ⓘ Vice Admiral ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Admiral Edward Hawke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle 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: 1st Viscount Keppel Description of subject: 1st Viscount Keppel was a prominent 18th-century British admiral and politician, known for his service in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Viscount Keppel
subject surface form:
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
this entity surface form:
Viscount Keppel
subject surface form:
Augustus Keppel
this entity surface form:
Viscount Keppel