Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
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Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, was the wife of British military hero and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington canonical | 5 |
| Duchess of Wellington | 4 |
| Viscountess Wellington | 2 |
| Catherine Sarah Dorothea Wellesley | 1 |
| Catherine Wellesley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1499115 — 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: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington Context triple: [Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, spouse, Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington]
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Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel was a British aristocrat and member of the Noel family, notable as the mother of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk.
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Sofia Wellesley
Sofia Wellesley is a British legal consultant and socialite, known for her work in law and her marriage to singer-songwriter James Blunt.
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C.
Frances Beaufort
Frances Beaufort was the second wife of Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and a member of the notable Beaufort family.
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Catherine Colepeper
Catherine Colepeper was an English noblewoman from the influential Colepeper family and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a prominent colonial landowner in Virginia.
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Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, was an English noblewoman of the late 17th century, best known as the illegitimate daughter of King James II of England and a prominent figure at the Restoration court.
- 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: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington Target entity description: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, was the wife of British military hero and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel
Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel was a British aristocrat and member of the Noel family, notable as the mother of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk.
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B.
Sofia Wellesley
Sofia Wellesley is a British legal consultant and socialite, known for her work in law and her marriage to singer-songwriter James Blunt.
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C.
Frances Beaufort
Frances Beaufort was the second wife of Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and a member of the notable Beaufort family.
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D.
Catherine Colepeper
Catherine Colepeper was an English noblewoman from the influential Colepeper family and the mother of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a prominent colonial landowner in Virginia.
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E.
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, was an English noblewoman of the late 17th century, best known as the illegitimate daughter of King James II of England and a prominent figure at the Restoration court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington Description of subject: Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, was the wife of British military hero and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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