11th Duke of Marlborough
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The 11th Duke of Marlborough, John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, was a British aristocrat and landowner who presided over Blenheim Palace and was a relative of both Sir Winston Churchill and the American Vanderbilt family.
All labels observed (2)
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| 11th Duke of Marlborough canonical | 3 |
| Duke of Marlborough | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1616561 — 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: 11th Duke of Marlborough Context triple: [John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, nobleTitle, 11th Duke of Marlborough]
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9th Duke of Marlborough
The 9th Duke of Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill, was a British aristocrat and landowner best known for his stewardship of Blenheim Palace and his high-profile marriage to American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent British aristocrat and landowner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, head of the Marlborough ducal line and custodian of Blenheim Palace.
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George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Lord Chamberlain and was a prominent member of the influential Churchill-Marlborough lineage in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough, was a 19th-century British peer and politician who held the Marlborough dukedom before his more politically prominent son, the 7th Duke.
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John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent 19th-century British Conservative politician and aristocrat who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and was the grandfather of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- 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: 11th Duke of Marlborough Target entity description: The 11th Duke of Marlborough, John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, was a British aristocrat and landowner who presided over Blenheim Palace and was a relative of both Sir Winston Churchill and the American Vanderbilt family.
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A.
9th Duke of Marlborough
The 9th Duke of Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill, was a British aristocrat and landowner best known for his stewardship of Blenheim Palace and his high-profile marriage to American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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B.
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent British aristocrat and landowner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, head of the Marlborough ducal line and custodian of Blenheim Palace.
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C.
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Lord Chamberlain and was a prominent member of the influential Churchill-Marlborough lineage in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough, was a 19th-century British peer and politician who held the Marlborough dukedom before his more politically prominent son, the 7th Duke.
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John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent 19th-century British Conservative politician and aristocrat who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and was the grandfather of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: 11th Duke of Marlborough Description of subject: The 11th Duke of Marlborough, John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, was a British aristocrat and landowner who presided over Blenheim Palace and was a relative of both Sir Winston Churchill and the American Vanderbilt family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
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11th Duke of Marlborough
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Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan
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John