Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
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Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton canonical | 10 |
| 2nd Duke of Grafton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T326359 — 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: Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton Context triple: [Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, grandfather, Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton]
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The Duke of Grafton
The Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the early reign of King George III and the turbulent years leading up to the American Revolution.
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B.
John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford
John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, was the only surviving son and heir apparent of the famed general John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, whose early death without issue altered the succession of the Marlborough titles.
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Duke of Newcastle
The Duke of Newcastle was a powerful 18th-century British Whig statesman and long-serving prime minister who played a central role in shaping Britain’s foreign policy during the lead-up to the Seven Years’ War.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton Target entity description: Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
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A.
The Duke of Grafton
The Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the early reign of King George III and the turbulent years leading up to the American Revolution.
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B.
John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford
John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, was the only surviving son and heir apparent of the famed general John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, whose early death without issue altered the succession of the Marlborough titles.
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C.
Duke of Newcastle
The Duke of Newcastle was a powerful 18th-century British Whig statesman and long-serving prime minister who played a central role in shaping Britain’s foreign policy during the lead-up to the Seven Years’ War.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton Description of subject: Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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