John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton
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John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton, was a 19th-century British peer and landowner who held one of the prominent dukedoms in the English aristocracy.
All labels observed (1)
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| John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9102896 — 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: John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton Context triple: [Dukes of Grafton family, notableMember, John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton]
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William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton
William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton was a 19th-century British peer and politician who held high office as Lord Chamberlain and was a prominent member of the aristocratic FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
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B.
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton was a British aristocrat and peer who held the ducal title in the prominent FitzRoy family during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
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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D.
Grantham Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond
Grantham Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, was a prominent 19th-century British peer and aristocrat who held multiple dukedoms and played a leading role in the social and political life of the British nobility.
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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: John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton Target entity description: John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton, was a 19th-century British peer and landowner who held one of the prominent dukedoms in the English aristocracy.
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A.
William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton
William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton was a 19th-century British peer and politician who held high office as Lord Chamberlain and was a prominent member of the aristocratic FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
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B.
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton was a British aristocrat and peer who held the ducal title in the prominent FitzRoy family during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
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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D.
Grantham Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond
Grantham Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, was a prominent 19th-century British peer and aristocrat who held multiple dukedoms and played a leading role in the social and political life of the British nobility.
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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 (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
ⓘ
duke ⓘ landowner ⓘ |
| aristocraticHouse | House of Grafton ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleHeldIn | Peerage of England ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| landOwnershipType | estate owner ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Duke of Grafton
ⓘ
linked to:
The Duke of Grafton
|
| notableFor | holding one of the prominent dukedoms in the English aristocracy ⓘ |
| occupation | landowner ⓘ |
| peerageStatus | hereditary peer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 9th Duke of Grafton ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence | England ⓘ |
| socialClass |
British aristocracy
ⓘ
English nobility ⓘ |
| titleScope | English aristocracy ⓘ |
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: John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton Description of subject: John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton, was a 19th-century British peer and landowner who held one of the prominent dukedoms in the English aristocracy.
Referenced by (1)
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