Duke of Portland
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The Duke of Portland was a title in the British peerage most notably held by William Cavendish-Bentinck, a prominent 18th–19th century statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Portland canonical | 32 |
| The Duke of Portland | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T539567 — 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: Duke of Portland Context triple: [Spencer Perceval, precededBy, Duke of Portland]
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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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George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
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Duke of Buckingham
The Duke of Buckingham is a powerful and romantic English nobleman whose secret love affair with Queen Anne drives much of the political intrigue in Alexandre Dumas’s novel *The Three Musketeers*.
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D.
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
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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John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford was a prominent British aristocrat and landowner of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential role in Whig politics and as the grandfather of the future Prime Minister Lord John Russell.
- 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: Duke of Portland Target entity description: The Duke of Portland was a title in the British peerage most notably held by William Cavendish-Bentinck, a prominent 18th–19th century statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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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.
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
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C.
Duke of Buckingham
The Duke of Buckingham is a powerful and romantic English nobleman whose secret love affair with Queen Anne drives much of the political intrigue in Alexandre Dumas’s novel *The Three Musketeers*.
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D.
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
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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E.
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford was a prominent British aristocrat and landowner of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential role in Whig politics and as the grandfather of the future Prime Minister Lord John Russell.
- 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: Duke of Portland Description of subject: The Duke of Portland was a title in the British peerage most notably held by William Cavendish-Bentinck, a prominent 18th–19th century statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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2nd Earl of Shelburne
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