William Shelley
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William Shelley was the son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet Westbrook.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Shelley canonical | 5 |
| Charles Bysshe Shelley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1990571 — 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: William Shelley Context triple: [Percy Bysshe Shelley, child, William Shelley]
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A.
Percy Florence Shelley
Percy Florence Shelley was the only surviving son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and novelist Mary Shelley, who later became a barrister and inherited the Shelley baronetcy.
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B.
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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C.
Shelley
Shelley is the surname of Mary Shelley, the English novelist best known as the author of the Gothic classic "Frankenstein."
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D.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet known for his radical political views, lyrical style, and works such as "Ozymandias" and "Prometheus Unbound."
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E.
Clara Everina Shelley
Clara Everina Shelley was the daughter of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, the writer Mary Shelley.
- 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: William Shelley Target entity description: William Shelley was the son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet Westbrook.
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A.
Percy Florence Shelley
Percy Florence Shelley was the only surviving son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and novelist Mary Shelley, who later became a barrister and inherited the Shelley baronetcy.
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B.
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley
Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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C.
Shelley
Shelley is the surname of Mary Shelley, the English novelist best known as the author of the Gothic classic "Frankenstein."
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D.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet known for his radical political views, lyrical style, and works such as "Ozymandias" and "Prometheus Unbound."
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E.
Clara Everina Shelley
Clara Everina Shelley was the daughter of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, the writer Mary Shelley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romantic poet
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historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| childOf |
Harriet Westbrook
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName |
Shelley
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Shelley ⓘ Westbrook ⓘ
linked to:
Russell Westbrook
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| father | Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Harriet Westbrook ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Harriet Westbrook
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ |
| parentOf |
William Shelley
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William Shelley ⓘ |
| partOfFamily | Shelley family ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Ianthe Shelley ⓘ |
| spouse | Harriet Westbrook ⓘ |
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: William Shelley Description of subject: William Shelley was the son of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet Westbrook.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.