William Waldegrave
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William Waldegrave is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill | 3 |
| William Waldegrave canonical | 2 |
| William Arthur Waldegrave | 1 |
| William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2430161 — 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: William Waldegrave Context triple: [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, officeHoldersInclude, William Waldegrave]
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Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave
Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became the first Baron Waldegrave in the Peerage of England and was closely connected to the Jacobite court.
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Lord Lansdowne
Lord Lansdowne was a prominent British statesman and literary patron of the early 18th century, associated with leading Augustan writers and political circles.
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Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister of Great Britain under King George II.
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Viscount Lascelles
Viscount Lascelles is a British noble title historically associated with the Lascelles family, notably used as a courtesy title by heirs to the Earldom of Harewood.
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John Cavendish
John Cavendish was an 18th-century British Whig politician and member of the influential Cavendish family who served in the House of Commons.
- 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: William Waldegrave Target entity description: William Waldegrave is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
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Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave
Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became the first Baron Waldegrave in the Peerage of England and was closely connected to the Jacobite court.
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B.
Lord Lansdowne
Lord Lansdowne was a prominent British statesman and literary patron of the early 18th century, associated with leading Augustan writers and political circles.
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C.
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister of Great Britain under King George II.
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D.
Viscount Lascelles
Viscount Lascelles is a British noble title historically associated with the Lascelles family, notably used as a courtesy title by heirs to the Earldom of Harewood.
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E.
John Cavendish
John Cavendish was an 18th-century British Whig politician and member of the influential Cavendish family who served in the House of Commons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: William Waldegrave Description of subject: William Waldegrave is a British Conservative politician who held several senior government posts under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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