heir

C1063
concept

An heir is an individual legally or customarily entitled to inherit property, titles, or responsibilities from another person, typically upon that person's death.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
heir apparent 216
Earl 206
heir canonical 48

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: heir
Generated description
An heir is an individual legally or customarily entitled to inherit property, titles, or responsibilities from another person, typically upon that person's death.

Instances (474)

Instance Via concept surface
Alexander Hugh George Cholmondeley, Earl of Rocksavage heir apparent
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse heir apparent
Edward Beale McLean Jr.
Ferdinand de la Cerda heir apparent
“Titanic baby”
surface form: John Jacob Astor VI
Jim Walton
John of Denmark (son of Christian II)
surface form: John of Denmark
heir apparent
William, Prince of Orange (1840–1879) heir apparent
Alexander, Prince of Orange heir apparent
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark heir apparent
Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock heir apparent
Geordie
surface form: Geordie Hormel
Henry George Charles Lascelles Earl
Leopold, Duke of Brabant heir apparent
George A. Whittell III
Crown Prince of Korea heir apparent
Charles Magnus, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach heir apparent
Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George of Teck Earl
Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell Earl
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (1859–1869) heir apparent
Prince Leopold, Count of Hainaut (1833–1865)
surface form: Prince Leopold, Count of Hainaut
heir apparent
Edward I's son Edward of Caernarfon
surface form: Edward of Caernarfon
heir apparent
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant heir apparent
Pitt the Elder Earl
Paris Singer
George Kenneth Oliver Molyneux Herbert, Lord Porchester heir apparent
William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle Earl
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria heir apparent
Crown Prince Yijiu heir apparent
William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington Earl
João Manuel de Portugal heir apparent
Maria Manuela, Princess of Asturias heir apparent
Prince Henry, son of King James I heir apparent
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond Earl
Francis III, Duke of Brittany heir apparent
Li Jiancheng heir apparent
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach heir apparent
Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln Earl
Louis of France, eldest son of Louis IX heir apparent
Patrick V, Earl of March Earl
Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden heir apparent
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester Earl
Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester Earl
Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester Earl
Prince John of Portugal heir apparent
Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox Earl
Philip of Artois heir apparent
John Shaffer Phipps
Arthur
surface form: Arthur, Prince of Wales
heir apparent
Emmanuel Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen heir apparent