Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork
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Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician who held multiple peerage titles and played a significant role in Irish and English public life during the Stuart period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork canonical | 7 |
| 2nd Earl of Cork | 1 |
| Richard Boyle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4947903 — 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: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork Context triple: [Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, child, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork]
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Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was a powerful and wealthy English colonial administrator and landowner in early 17th-century Ireland, noted for his extensive estates and political influence.
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Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish Catholic nobleman and soldier who served as James II’s chief representative in Ireland and played a leading role in the events surrounding the Williamite War.
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C.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a 17th-century Irish nobleman and military leader noted for his shifting allegiances and controversial role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare
Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, was a powerful early 16th-century Irish nobleman and Lord Deputy of Ireland whose dominance in Irish politics earned him the nickname "the Great Earl."
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E.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier, and statesman who played a leading role in Royalist politics and military campaigns in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Restoration era.
- 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: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork Target entity description: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician who held multiple peerage titles and played a significant role in Irish and English public life during the Stuart period.
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A.
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was a powerful and wealthy English colonial administrator and landowner in early 17th-century Ireland, noted for his extensive estates and political influence.
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B.
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish Catholic nobleman and soldier who served as James II’s chief representative in Ireland and played a leading role in the events surrounding the Williamite War.
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C.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, was a 17th-century Irish nobleman and military leader noted for his shifting allegiances and controversial role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare
Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, was a powerful early 16th-century Irish nobleman and Lord Deputy of Ireland whose dominance in Irish politics earned him the nickname "the Great Earl."
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E.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier, and statesman who played a leading role in Royalist politics and military campaigns in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Restoration era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork Description of subject: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician who held multiple peerage titles and played a significant role in Irish and English public life during the Stuart period.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork
linked to: Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork