governor-general

C5324

concept

A governor-general is the representative of a monarch in a constitutional monarchy, performing ceremonial duties and certain constitutional functions on the monarch’s behalf within a specific country or territory.

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All labels observed (22)

Label	Occurrences
Governor-General of India	29
Viceroy of India	27
Governor-General of New Zealand	26
Governor-General	25
Governor-General of Australia	17
governor-general canonical	16
colonial governorship	7
Governor General of New France	6
Governor-General of French Indochina	3
Governor-General of South Africa	3
governor general	2
governor-generalship	2
viceroy of India	2
Governor General of the Province of Canada	1
Governor of Trinidad and Tobago	1
Governor-General of Taiwan	1
Governor-General of the Solomon Islands	1
Governor-General of the Union of South Africa	1
Governor-General_of_Belize	1
Inuk leader	1
governor-general of Australia	1
governor-general of India	1

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: governor-general

Generated description

A governor-general is the representative of a monarch in a constitutional monarchy, performing ceremonial duties and certain constitutional functions on the monarch’s behalf within a specific country or territory.

Instances (168)

Instance	Via concept surface
John surface form: John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun	Governor-General of Australia
Willoughby Norrie	Governor-General of New Zealand
Bernard Fergusson	Governor-General of New Zealand
Mary Simon	Inuk leader
Richard Casey	Governor-General of Australia
Lord Casey	Governor-General of Australia
Christian Broun of Coalstoun surface form: James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie	Governor-General of India
1st Marquess of Dalhousie	Governor-General of India
João de Castro, 2nd Viceroy of India surface form: João de Castro	viceroy of India
Governor-General of French West Africa	governor-generalship
Longdon Hall, Staffordshire surface form: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough	Governor-General of India
Lord Auckland as Governor-General of India surface form: Lord Auckland	Governor-General of India
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough	Governor-General of India
E. F. L. Wood	Viceroy of India
Sir Ronaldshay (Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow) surface form: Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow	Governor-General of India
Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham	Governor-General of New Zealand
1st Marquess of Reading surface form: Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading	Viceroy of India
Charles Lyttelton, 12th Viscount Cobham	Governor-General of New Zealand