Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
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Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the son of Robert Clive (“Clive of India”) and for serving as Governor of Madras.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis canonical | 4 |
| Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T115129 — 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: Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Context triple: [Robert Clive, child, Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis]
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Earl of Sunderland
The Earl of Sunderland is a historic English peerage title long associated with the influential Spencer-Churchill aristocratic family, prominent in British political and social life.
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B.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Frederick Rutland
Frederick Rutland was a British naval aviator and World War I flying ace renowned for his reconnaissance work at the Battle of Jutland and later controversial activities as a spy.
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D.
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, was a British aristocrat and peer who became closely associated with the royal family through his marriage to Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
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E.
Lord Stanley of Preston
Lord Stanley of Preston was a late 19th-century Governor General of Canada best known for donating the trophy that became the Stanley Cup, the championship prize of professional ice hockey.
- 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: Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Target entity description: Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the son of Robert Clive (“Clive of India”) and for serving as Governor of Madras.
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A.
Earl of Sunderland
The Earl of Sunderland is a historic English peerage title long associated with the influential Spencer-Churchill aristocratic family, prominent in British political and social life.
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B.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Frederick Rutland
Frederick Rutland was a British naval aviator and World War I flying ace renowned for his reconnaissance work at the Battle of Jutland and later controversial activities as a spy.
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D.
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, was a British aristocrat and peer who became closely associated with the royal family through his marriage to Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
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E.
Lord Stanley of Preston
Lord Stanley of Preston was a late 19th-century Governor General of Canada best known for donating the trophy that became the Stanley Cup, the championship prize of professional ice hockey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Description of subject: Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the son of Robert Clive (“Clive of India”) and for serving as Governor of Madras.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis
this entity surface form:
Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis