Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington
E208200
British politician
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Whig politician
human
member of the Parliament of Great Britain
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister of Great Britain under King George II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington canonical | 3 |
| Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington | 2 |
| Spencer Compton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1121935 — 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: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington Context triple: [Wilmington, Delaware, namedAfter, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington]
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A.
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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B.
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, was a prominent 19th-century British statesman and aristocrat who held senior political offices including Leader of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionists.
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C.
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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D.
Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave
Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became the first Baron Waldegrave in the Peerage of England and was closely connected to the Jacobite court.
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E.
David Leslie, Lord Newark
David Leslie, Lord Newark was a Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who played a prominent role as a Covenanter and later Royalist general during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- 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: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington Target entity description: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister of Great Britain under King George II.
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A.
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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B.
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, was a prominent 19th-century British statesman and aristocrat who held senior political offices including Leader of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionists.
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C.
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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D.
Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave
Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became the first Baron Waldegrave in the Peerage of England and was closely connected to the Jacobite court.
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E.
David Leslie, Lord Newark
David Leslie, Lord Newark was a Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who played a prominent role as a Covenanter and later Royalist general during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington Description of subject: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, was an 18th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister of Great Britain under King George II.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilmington, North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
this entity surface form:
Spencer Compton
subject surface form:
Wilmington, North Carolina
this entity surface form:
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington