William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin
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William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin, was an 18th-century British peer and member of the aristocratic Godolphin family, known for his role in the English nobility during the Georgian era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin canonical | 2 |
| 3rd Earl of Godolphin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1886367 — 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: William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin Context triple: [Earl of Godolphin, hasTitleHolder, William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin]
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William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin was a prominent English statesman and Lord High Treasurer under Queen Anne, noted for his key role in managing the finances of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who served as a prominent Whig statesman and courtier during the reigns of Queen Anne and King George I.
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C.
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century English statesman and financial administrator who served as a leading minister under multiple monarchs and helped shape the fiscal foundations of the emerging British state.
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D.
Sir Francis Godolphin
Sir Francis Godolphin was an English landowner and politician from the prominent Godolphin family of Cornwall, active in local and national affairs in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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E.
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, was an English Whig politician and landowner who served in Parliament and was later elevated to the peerage in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- 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: William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin Target entity description: William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin, was an 18th-century British peer and member of the aristocratic Godolphin family, known for his role in the English nobility during the Georgian era.
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A.
William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin was a prominent English statesman and Lord High Treasurer under Queen Anne, noted for his key role in managing the finances of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin
Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who served as a prominent Whig statesman and courtier during the reigns of Queen Anne and King George I.
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C.
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century English statesman and financial administrator who served as a leading minister under multiple monarchs and helped shape the fiscal foundations of the emerging British state.
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D.
Sir Francis Godolphin
Sir Francis Godolphin was an English landowner and politician from the prominent Godolphin family of Cornwall, active in local and national affairs in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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E.
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, was an English Whig politician and landowner who served in Parliament and was later elevated to the peerage in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
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Earl in the Peerage of Great Britain ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| aristocraticFamily |
Godolphin family of Cornwall
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surface form:
Godolphin family
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| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | Georgian era ⓘ |
| familyName | Godolphin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| memberOfNobleFamily |
Godolphin
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surface form:
Godolphin family
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| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Godolphin ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the English nobility during the Georgian era ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle |
William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
3rd Earl of Godolphin
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| positionHeld | Member of the British peerage ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | England ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| titleHeldIn | Peerage of Great Britain ⓘ |
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: William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin Description of subject: William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin, was an 18th-century British peer and member of the aristocratic Godolphin family, known for his role in the English nobility during the Georgian era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin
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ordinalOfTitle
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William Godolphin, 3rd Earl of Godolphin
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
3rd Earl of Godolphin