Earl of Powis
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The Earl of Powis is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain historically associated with the Clive family and the Welsh border region of Powys.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earl of Powis canonical | 14 |
| Earls of Powis | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1087890 — 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: Earl of Powis Context triple: [Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, nobleTitle, Earl of Powis]
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A.
Earl of Huntingdon
The Earl of Huntingdon was a prominent medieval English noble title often associated with members of the Scottish royal family, notably serving as a key link between Scottish kings and the English nobility.
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B.
Earl of Lincoln
The Earl of Lincoln is a hereditary English noble title in the Peerage of England, historically held by several prominent aristocratic families involved in national politics and royal affairs.
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C.
Earl of Tinmouth
The Earl of Tinmouth is a historical British peerage title associated with the prominent Jacobite military commander James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, an illegitimate son of King James II of England.
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D.
Earl of Orford
The Earl of Orford is a British peerage title historically associated with Sir Robert Walpole, often regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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E.
Earl of Carrick
The Earl of Carrick was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the ruling family of Carrick in southwestern Scotland, notably held by Robert the Bruce before he became King of Scots.
- 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: Earl of Powis Target entity description: The Earl of Powis is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain historically associated with the Clive family and the Welsh border region of Powys.
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A.
Earl of Huntingdon
The Earl of Huntingdon was a prominent medieval English noble title often associated with members of the Scottish royal family, notably serving as a key link between Scottish kings and the English nobility.
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B.
Earl of Lincoln
The Earl of Lincoln is a hereditary English noble title in the Peerage of England, historically held by several prominent aristocratic families involved in national politics and royal affairs.
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C.
Earl of Tinmouth
The Earl of Tinmouth is a historical British peerage title associated with the prominent Jacobite military commander James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, an illegitimate son of King James II of England.
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D.
Earl of Orford
The Earl of Orford is a British peerage title historically associated with Sir Robert Walpole, often regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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E.
Earl of Carrick
The Earl of Carrick was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the ruling family of Carrick in southwestern Scotland, notably held by Robert the Bruce before he became King of Scots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earldom
ⓘ
hereditary title ⓘ title in the Peerage of Great Britain ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clive family
ⓘ
Powys ⓘ Welsh Marches ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| createdFor | Clive family ⓘ |
| hasSeat |
Powis Castle
ⓘ
linked to:
Powis Castle, Powys
|
| hasTerritorialDesignation |
Powis
ⓘ
linked to:
Powis Castle, Powys
|
| hereditary | true ⓘ |
| historicallyLinkedTo |
County of Montgomeryshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Montgomeryshire
historic county of Powys ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Powys
ⓘ
Wales ⓘ |
| nobleRankOrder |
above Viscount
ⓘ
below Marquess ⓘ |
| nobleTitleType | British peerage title ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Great Britain ⓘ |
| rank | Earl ⓘ |
| region | Welsh border region ⓘ |
| style | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| titleHolderFamily | Clive family ⓘ |
| titleTradition | British nobility ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Earl of Powis Description of subject: The Earl of Powis is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain historically associated with the Clive family and the Welsh border region of Powys.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Clive family
linked to: Earl of Powis
linked to: Earl of Powis
linked to: Earl of Powis