Duke

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A duke is the highest hereditary noble title in the British peerage system below the monarch, historically associated with great landholdings and significant political influence.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Duke canonical 39
Duke (male) 2
Duque (Duke) 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf hereditary noble title
noble rank
peerage title
associatedWithTerritory Duchy
canBeHeldBy members of the royal family
non-royal nobility
canBeLifeTitle no
ceremonialRoleIn state occasions in the United Kingdom
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
etymologyDerivedFrom Latin word "dux"
etymologyOriginLanguage Latin
femaleEquivalent Duchess
grantsTitle British monarch
surface form: Monarch of the United Kingdom
hasGenderedForm Duchess
hasPrecedenceOver all other non-royal peers in the UK
hasStyle His Grace
surface form: Her Grace

His Grace
historicalFunction advising the monarch
commanding armies
regional governance
historicallyAssociatedWith great landholdings
military leadership
significant political influence
holderCalled Peer of the Realm
isHereditary often
legalSystemContext UK law of peerage
mayBeRoyalTitle yes
originalMeaning leader
partOf British peerage system
positionInHierarchy highest hereditary noble title below the monarch in the British peerage
rankAbove Baron
Earl
Marquess
Viscount
rankBelow King
Monarch
Queen
royalVariant Royal Duke
successionRule usually male-preference primogeniture
titleType substantive title
typicalFormOfAddress Your Grace
usedIn Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Scotland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom
surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

How these facts were elicited

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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: Duke
Description of subject: A duke is the highest hereditary noble title in the British peerage system below the monarch, historically associated with great landholdings and significant political influence.

Referenced by (42)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Conde (Spain, Portugal) lowerRankThan Duke
this entity surface form: Duque (Duke)
Doris Duke familyName Duke
Duke of Huéscar style Duke
the Duke of Venice hasTitle Duke
subject surface form: Duke of Venice (Othello)
Duke of Rubí hasGenderedForm Duke
this entity surface form: Duke (male)
Duke of Alba de Tormes genderForm Duke
this entity surface form: Duke (male)
de Beauharnais hasTitle Duke
Duke alias Duke