12th Earl of Orrery
E221178
The 12th Earl of Orrery is an Irish peerage title historically associated with the Boyle family, a prominent Anglo-Irish noble house.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earl of Orrery | 4 |
| 12th Earl of Orrery canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1878251 — 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: 12th Earl of Orrery Context triple: [William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, nobleTitle, 12th Earl of Orrery]
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A.
10th Earl of Orrery
The 10th Earl of Orrery is a hereditary Irish peerage titleholder in the Earl of Orrery line, associated with the combined Cork and Orrery titles in the British aristocracy.
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B.
The Earl of Athlone
The Earl of Athlone was a British royal and military figure who served as Governor General of Canada during the Second World War.
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C.
16th Earl of Derby
The 16th Earl of Derby was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada in the late 19th century.
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D.
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, politician, and patron of the sciences whose name is commemorated in the mechanical model of the solar system known as an orrery.
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E.
Marquess of Ormonde
The Marquess of Ormonde is a historic Irish noble title traditionally associated with the powerful Butler family and the region of Ormond in southeastern Ireland.
- 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: 12th Earl of Orrery Target entity description: The 12th Earl of Orrery is an Irish peerage title historically associated with the Boyle family, a prominent Anglo-Irish noble house.
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A.
10th Earl of Orrery
The 10th Earl of Orrery is a hereditary Irish peerage titleholder in the Earl of Orrery line, associated with the combined Cork and Orrery titles in the British aristocracy.
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B.
The Earl of Athlone
The Earl of Athlone was a British royal and military figure who served as Governor General of Canada during the Second World War.
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C.
16th Earl of Derby
The 16th Earl of Derby was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada in the late 19th century.
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D.
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, politician, and patron of the sciences whose name is commemorated in the mechanical model of the solar system known as an orrery.
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E.
Marquess of Ormonde
The Marquess of Ormonde is a historic Irish noble title traditionally associated with the powerful Butler family and the region of Ormond in southeastern Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earldom
ⓘ
noble title ⓘ title in the Peerage of Ireland ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Boyle family ⓘ |
| associatedWithNobleHouse | Boyle family ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasPredecessorTitleHolder | 11th Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| hasRank | earl ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorTitleHolder | 13th Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
12th Earl of Orrery
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Earl of Orrery
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| historicallyAssociatedWith | County Cork ⓘ |
| isHereditary | true ⓘ |
| isNumberedSuccession | true ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| nobilityType | Anglo-Irish nobility ⓘ |
| ordinalNumber | 12 ⓘ |
| partOf | Peerage of Ireland ⓘ |
| region | Ireland ⓘ |
| styleOfAddress | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| titleHeldBy | member of the Boyle family ⓘ |
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: 12th Earl of Orrery Description of subject: The 12th Earl of Orrery is an Irish peerage title historically associated with the Boyle family, a prominent Anglo-Irish noble house.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Earl of Orrery
this entity surface form:
Earl of Orrery
this entity surface form:
Earl of Orrery
this entity surface form:
Earl of Orrery