William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
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William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire canonical | 8 |
| 2nd Duke of Devonshire | 3 |
| Duke of Devonshire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T381508 — 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: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire Context triple: [Henry Cavendish, paternalGrandfather, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire]
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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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B.
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
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Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
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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D.
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, was an 18th–19th century Irish peer, art collector, and philanthropist whose bequest of his extensive art and manuscript collection led to the creation of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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E.
Duke of Newcastle
The Duke of Newcastle was a powerful 18th-century British Whig statesman and long-serving prime minister who played a central role in shaping Britain’s foreign policy during the lead-up to the Seven Years’ War.
- 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: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire Target entity description: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
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A.
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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B.
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
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C.
Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
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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D.
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, was an 18th–19th century Irish peer, art collector, and philanthropist whose bequest of his extensive art and manuscript collection led to the creation of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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E.
Duke of Newcastle
The Duke of Newcastle was a powerful 18th-century British Whig statesman and long-serving prime minister who played a central role in shaping Britain’s foreign policy during the lead-up to the Seven Years’ War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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, 2nd Duke of Devonshire Description of subject: William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish
this entity surface form:
Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
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nobleTitle
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William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
2nd Duke of Devonshire
this entity surface form:
2nd Duke of Devonshire
this entity surface form:
2nd Duke of Devonshire