Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
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Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, was a 19th-century British Conservative politician who served as Governor-General of India and held several senior government offices, including First Lord of the Admiralty and President of the Board of Control.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough | 1 |
| Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11343138 — 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.
Target entity: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Context triple: [Lord Ellenborough, fullName, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough]
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Sir Henry Hardinge
Sir Henry Hardinge was a British soldier and statesman who served as Governor-General of India and played a leading role in British military campaigns on the subcontinent in the mid-19th century.
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Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, was a 19th-century British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India until his assassination in 1872.
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George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor General of British North America and later as Commander-in-Chief in India in the early 19th century.
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Viscount Wolseley
Viscount Wolseley was a prominent 19th-century British Army officer and military reformer renowned for his leadership in numerous imperial campaigns and for modernizing the British armed forces.
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E.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Target entity description: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, was a 19th-century British Conservative politician who served as Governor-General of India and held several senior government offices, including First Lord of the Admiralty and President of the Board of Control.
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A.
Sir Henry Hardinge
Sir Henry Hardinge was a British soldier and statesman who served as Governor-General of India and played a leading role in British military campaigns on the subcontinent in the mid-19th century.
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B.
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, was a 19th-century British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India until his assassination in 1872.
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C.
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor General of British North America and later as Commander-in-Chief in India in the early 19th century.
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Viscount Wolseley
Viscount Wolseley was a prominent 19th-century British Army officer and military reformer renowned for his leadership in numerous imperial campaigns and for modernizing the British armed forces.
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E.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
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Conservative Party (UK) politician ⓘ Governor-General of India ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation | British government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitle | peer of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eton College
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Lincoln's Inn NERFINISHED ⓘ St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colonial administration
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politics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | conservative politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Conservative Party (UK)
NERFINISHED
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House of Lords ⓘ |
| monarchDuringTerm |
Queen Victoria
NERFINISHED
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William IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Ellenborough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as First Lord of the Admiralty
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service as Governor-General of India ⓘ service as President of the Board of Control ⓘ |
| notableWork | administration of British India ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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statesman ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Conservatism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Lord of the Admiralty
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Governor-General of India NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord President of the Council ⓘ Lord Privy Seal ⓘ Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ President of the Board of Control ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Digby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Description of subject: Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, was a 19th-century British Conservative politician who served as Governor-General of India and held several senior government offices, including First Lord of the Admiralty and President of the Board of Control.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.