The Duke of Grafton
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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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Grafton | 17 |
| Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | 8 |
| 3rd Duke of Grafton | 3 |
| The Duke of Grafton canonical | 2 |
| Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | 1 |
| Dukes of Grafton | 1 |
| His Grace The Duke of Grafton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T91237 — 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: The Duke of Grafton Context triple: [William Pitt the Elder, successorAsPrimeMinister, The Duke of Grafton]
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Duke of Cumberland
The Duke of Cumberland was a British royal prince and military commander known for his controversial leadership in mid-18th-century European and Jacobite conflicts.
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Duke of York
The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
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James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a British royal prince, the third son of King George V, who served as a senior member of the royal family and briefly as Governor-General of Australia.
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Duke of Hamilton
The Duke of Hamilton is the premier ducal title in the Peerage of Scotland, traditionally held by the head of the influential Hamilton family and historically associated with high rank and political prominence in Scottish nobility.
- 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: The Duke of Grafton Target entity description: 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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A.
Duke of Cumberland
The Duke of Cumberland was a British royal prince and military commander known for his controversial leadership in mid-18th-century European and Jacobite conflicts.
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B.
Duke of York
The Duke of York is a hereditary title in the British royal family traditionally granted to the second son of the reigning monarch.
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C.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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D.
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a British royal prince, the third son of King George V, who served as a senior member of the royal family and briefly as Governor-General of Australia.
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Duke of Hamilton
The Duke of Hamilton is the premier ducal title in the Peerage of Scotland, traditionally held by the head of the influential Hamilton family and historically associated with high rank and political prominence in Scottish nobility.
- 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: The Duke of Grafton Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)
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The Duke of Grafton
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subject surface form:
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
this entity surface form:
3rd Duke of Grafton
The Duke of Grafton (de facto), The Marquess of Rockingham (de jure predecessor in office sequence)
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The Duke of Grafton
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subject surface form:
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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3rd Duke of Grafton
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Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Dukes of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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3rd Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Frederick North, Lord North
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Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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His Grace The Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton
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Duke of Grafton