William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a prominent peer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the father of the society hostess and patron of the arts Lady Ottoline Morrell.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2696292 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland Context triple: [Ottoline Morrell, father, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland]
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George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister and was a prominent member of the Whig aristocracy.
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Duke of Portland
The Duke of Portland was a title in the British peerage most notably held by William Cavendish-Bentinck, a prominent 18th–19th century statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician best known for his influential role in high society and his marriage to the celebrated socialite Georgiana Spencer.
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Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, was a prominent 19th-century British statesman and aristocrat who held senior political offices including Leader of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionists.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland Target entity description: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a prominent peer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the father of the society hostess and patron of the arts Lady Ottoline Morrell.
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George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister and was a prominent member of the Whig aristocracy.
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Duke of Portland
The Duke of Portland was a title in the British peerage most notably held by William Cavendish-Bentinck, a prominent 18th–19th century statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician best known for his influential role in high society and his marriage to the celebrated socialite Georgiana Spencer.
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Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, was a prominent 19th-century British statesman and aristocrat who held senior political offices including Leader of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionists.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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.
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Subject: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland Description of subject: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a prominent peer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the father of the society hostess and patron of the arts Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
this entity surface form:
William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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ordinalInTitle
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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this entity surface form:
6th Duke of Portland
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
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father
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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