Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire
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Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, was a British statesman and colonial administrator who served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
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| Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10119590 — 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: Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire Context triple: [Lord Buckinghamshire, refersTo, Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire]
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A.
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, was an 18th-century British statesman and nobleman who held high office, including Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and played a significant role in Georgian-era politics.
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B.
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat who was elevated to the peerage as Marquess of Salisbury in the late 18th century.
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C.
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, was an influential English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and later as Lord Chancellor under Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
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D.
John Montagu
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, was an 18th-century British statesman and First Lord of the Admiralty, popularly associated with giving his title to the sandwich.
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E.
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, was an 18th-century British statesman and nobleman who held high offices including Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Lord Chamberlain.
- 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: Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire Target entity description: Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, was a British statesman and colonial administrator who served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in the early 19th century.
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A.
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, was an 18th-century British statesman and nobleman who held high office, including Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and played a significant role in Georgian-era politics.
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B.
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat who was elevated to the peerage as Marquess of Salisbury in the late 18th century.
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C.
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, was an influential English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and later as Lord Chancellor under Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
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D.
John Montagu
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, was an 18th-century British statesman and First Lord of the Admiralty, popularly associated with giving his title to the sandwich.
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E.
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, was an 18th-century British statesman and nobleman who held high offices including Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Lord Chamberlain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
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British politician ⓘ Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ⓘ colonial administrator ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Lord Hobart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Chapel of the Foundling Hospital, London (reinterred at family vault in Buckinghamshire) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1760-05-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1816-02-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Oxford
ⓘ
Westminster School ⓘ |
| father | George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Hobart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honour | Privy Counsellor ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Commons of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Lords of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant-Colonel ⓘ |
| monarchDuringTerm | George III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Albinia Bertie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Hobart, capital city of Tasmania, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
administration of Madras Presidency
ⓘ
service as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| parliamentaryServiceEnd | 1816 ⓘ |
| parliamentaryServiceStart | 1788 ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hampden House, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Tory ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
NERFINISHED
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Chief Secretary for Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Governor of Madras ⓘ Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough ⓘ Member of Parliament for Bramber ⓘ Member of Parliament for Lincoln ⓘ Member of Parliament for Portarlington ⓘ Postmaster General of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Secretary of State for War and the Colonies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | British Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnderPrimeMinister |
Henry Addington
NERFINISHED
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William Pitt the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEnd |
Governor of Madras, 1798
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Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1804 ⓘ |
| termStart |
Governor of Madras, 1793
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Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1801 ⓘ |
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: Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire Description of subject: Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, was a British statesman and colonial administrator who served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in the early 19th century.
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