Viscount Cornbury
E351357
Viscount Cornbury is a noble title in the British peerage historically associated with the influential Hyde family, which included prominent political figures in the 17th and 18th centuries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viscount Cornbury canonical | 5 |
| Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3302049 — 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: Viscount Cornbury Context triple: [Hyde family, titleHeld, Viscount Cornbury]
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A.
Viscount Cobham
Viscount Cobham was a British aristocrat and politician best known for developing the grand estate and political landscape at Stowe, making it a symbol of 18th-century Whig power and taste.
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B.
Viscount Caversham
Viscount Caversham is a British noble title historically associated with the Cadogan family, notably held by military commander William Cadogan in the early 18th century.
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C.
Viscount Woodstock
Viscount Woodstock is a courtesy title traditionally used by the heir apparent to the Duke of Portland in the British peerage.
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D.
Viscount Norwich
Viscount Norwich is a British hereditary peerage title in the United Kingdom, created in the mid-20th century for the politician and diplomat Duff Cooper.
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E.
The Earl of Willingdon
The Earl of Willingdon was a British colonial administrator who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India during the early 1930s.
- 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: Viscount Cornbury Target entity description: Viscount Cornbury is a noble title in the British peerage historically associated with the influential Hyde family, which included prominent political figures in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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A.
Viscount Cobham
Viscount Cobham was a British aristocrat and politician best known for developing the grand estate and political landscape at Stowe, making it a symbol of 18th-century Whig power and taste.
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B.
Viscount Caversham
Viscount Caversham is a British noble title historically associated with the Cadogan family, notably held by military commander William Cadogan in the early 18th century.
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C.
Viscount Woodstock
Viscount Woodstock is a courtesy title traditionally used by the heir apparent to the Duke of Portland in the British peerage.
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D.
Viscount Norwich
Viscount Norwich is a British hereditary peerage title in the United Kingdom, created in the mid-20th century for the politician and diplomat Duff Cooper.
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E.
The Earl of Willingdon
The Earl of Willingdon was a British colonial administrator who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India during the early 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
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colonial governor ⓘ noble title ⓘ viscountcy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British politics
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Earl of Clarendon ⓘ Hyde family ⓘ Stuart period ⓘ early Hanoverian period ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| heldPosition |
Governor of New Jersey
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Governor of New York ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
17th century
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18th century ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hyde family ⓘ |
| nobilityRank | viscount ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Hyde family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Viscount Cornbury ⓘ |
| notableTitleHolder |
Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury
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linked to:
Viscount Cornbury
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| partOf | Peerage of England ⓘ |
| region | Great Britain ⓘ |
| subsidiaryTitleOf | Earl of Clarendon ⓘ |
| titleHolder | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon ⓘ |
| usedAsCourtesyTitleBy | heir apparent to the Earl of Clarendon ⓘ |
| usedIn | British peerage system ⓘ |
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: Viscount Cornbury Description of subject: Viscount Cornbury is a noble title in the British peerage historically associated with the influential Hyde family, which included prominent political figures in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.