William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
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William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British Whig politician and nobleman who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held several high offices under King George II.
All labels observed (2)
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| William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire canonical | 7 |
| 3rd Duke of Devonshire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2689241 — 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: William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire Context triple: [William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, child, William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire]
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William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister and was a prominent member of the Whig aristocracy.
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William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician best known for his influential role in high society and his marriage to the celebrated socialite Georgiana Spencer.
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William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, was a prominent 19th-century British aristocrat, politician, and patron of the arts known for transforming Chatsworth House and playing a significant role in Whig politics.
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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was a prominent English nobleman and Whig politician who played a key role in the Glorious Revolution and the accession of William III and Mary II.
- 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 Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire Target entity description: William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British Whig politician and nobleman who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held several high offices under King George II.
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A.
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire was an early 18th-century English nobleman and Whig politician who served as Lord President of the Council and was a prominent figure in the political life of the Hanoverian court.
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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister and was a prominent member of the Whig aristocracy.
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C.
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician best known for his influential role in high society and his marriage to the celebrated socialite Georgiana Spencer.
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D.
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, was a prominent 19th-century British aristocrat, politician, and patron of the arts known for transforming Chatsworth House and playing a significant role in Whig politics.
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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was a prominent English nobleman and Whig politician who played a key role in the Glorious Revolution and the accession of William III and Mary II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire Description of subject: William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was an 18th-century British Whig politician and nobleman who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held several high offices under King George II.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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