James Brooke
E159032
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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Brooke canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1375708 — 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: James Brooke Context triple: [Sarawak, firstWhiteRajah, James Brooke]
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A.
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator best known as the founder of modern Singapore and a key figure in expanding British influence in Southeast Asia.
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B.
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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C.
Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz
Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz was a Dutch general and colonial administrator best known for his decisive role in the conquest and pacification of Aceh and later governorship of the Dutch East Indies.
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D.
Alan Cunningham
Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
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E.
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was a renowned British World War II secret agent and resistance organizer, famed for his daring missions in occupied France and his resilience under Gestapo capture and torture.
- 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: James Brooke Target entity description: 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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A.
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British colonial administrator best known as the founder of modern Singapore and a key figure in expanding British influence in Southeast Asia.
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B.
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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C.
Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz
Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz was a Dutch general and colonial administrator best known for his decisive role in the conquest and pacification of Aceh and later governorship of the Dutch East Indies.
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D.
Alan Cunningham
Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
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E.
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was a renowned British World War II secret agent and resistance organizer, famed for his daring missions in occupied France and his resilience under Gestapo capture and torture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: James Brooke Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Anna Maria Brooke
subject linked to:
Anna Maria Brooke
subject linked to:
Kingdom of Sarawak (as a sovereign state)
subject linked to:
Kingdom of Sarawak (as a sovereign state)