Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a prominent 19th-century British politician and social reformer renowned for his campaigns to improve working conditions and protect children and the poor.
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| Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14814095 — 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)
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Target entity: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Context triple: [Shaftesbury Avenue, namedAfter, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a British peer and politician from the prominent Ashley-Cooper family who held the Shaftesbury earldom in the 19th century.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a British peer and landowner who held the historic Shaftesbury title in the early 20th century.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a British peer and landowner who inherited the Shaftesbury title in the late 19th century and was part of the prominent Ashley-Cooper aristocratic family.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury was an English nobleman and politician of the late 17th century, known for his involvement in the politics of the Restoration period.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was an influential early 18th-century English philosopher and moralist whose writings on virtue, aesthetics, and the moral sense helped shape the development of Enlightenment thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Target entity description: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a prominent 19th-century British politician and social reformer renowned for his campaigns to improve working conditions and protect children and the poor.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a British peer and politician from the prominent Ashley-Cooper family who held the Shaftesbury earldom in the 19th century.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a British peer and landowner who held the historic Shaftesbury title in the early 20th century.
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C.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, was a British peer and landowner who inherited the Shaftesbury title in the late 19th century and was part of the prominent Ashley-Cooper aristocratic family.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury was an English nobleman and politician of the late 17th century, known for his involvement in the politics of the Restoration period.
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E.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was an influential early 18th-century English philosopher and moralist whose writings on virtue, aesthetics, and the moral sense helped shape the development of Enlightenment thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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subject linked to:
Lord Ashley (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury)
Wilfrid William Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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