William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3296996 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland Context triple: [Duke of Portland, heldBy, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland]
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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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William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who rose to prominence as a leading Whig peer and influential landowner.
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Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, was a British diplomat and peer who served as the final holder of the Portland dukedom in the 20th century.
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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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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, was an 18th-century British lawyer, judge, and Whig politician renowned for his strong defense of civil liberties and opposition to arbitrary government power.
- 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, 3rd Duke of Portland Target entity description: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
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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William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who rose to prominence as a leading Whig peer and influential landowner.
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Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, was a British diplomat and peer who served as the final holder of the Portland dukedom in the 20th century.
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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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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, was an 18th-century British lawyer, judge, and Whig politician renowned for his strong defense of civil liberties and opposition to arbitrary government power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland Description of subject: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
subject surface form:
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
this entity surface form:
3rd Duke of Portland
this entity surface form:
3rd Duke of Portland
British Orders in Council of 1807
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headOfGovernmentAtTimeOfIssuance
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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ordinalInTitle
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
3rd Duke of Portland
this entity surface form:
William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
this entity surface form:
William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland