5th Viscount Howe
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The 5th Viscount Howe was a British noble title in the Peerage of Great Britain, notably held by General Sir William Howe, a commander of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
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| 5th Viscount Howe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5008937 — 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: 5th Viscount Howe Context triple: [Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, nobleTitle, 5th Viscount Howe]
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A.
1st Viscount Ruffside
1st Viscount Ruffside was the British peerage title created for Douglas Clifton Brown, a Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during World War II.
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B.
1st Viscount Melville
1st Viscount Melville was Henry Dundas, a powerful late 18th- and early 19th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who dominated Scottish politics and served as a key minister in the British government under William Pitt the Younger.
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C.
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral who served during the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
Lord George Howe
Lord George Howe was a prominent British Army officer of the mid-18th century, noted for his leadership and reformist approach to colonial warfare during the French and Indian War.
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E.
1st Viscount Norwich
1st Viscount Norwich was the British statesman, diplomat, and writer Duff Cooper, noted for his service in Winston Churchill’s wartime government and his influential political and literary career.
- 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: 5th Viscount Howe Target entity description: The 5th Viscount Howe was a British noble title in the Peerage of Great Britain, notably held by General Sir William Howe, a commander of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
1st Viscount Ruffside
1st Viscount Ruffside was the British peerage title created for Douglas Clifton Brown, a Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during World War II.
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B.
1st Viscount Melville
1st Viscount Melville was Henry Dundas, a powerful late 18th- and early 19th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who dominated Scottish politics and served as a key minister in the British government under William Pitt the Younger.
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C.
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral who served during the American Revolutionary and French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
Lord George Howe
Lord George Howe was a prominent British Army officer of the mid-18th century, noted for his leadership and reformist approach to colonial warfare during the French and Indian War.
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E.
1st Viscount Norwich
1st Viscount Norwich was the British statesman, diplomat, and writer Duff Cooper, noted for his service in Winston Churchill’s wartime government and his influential political and literary career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: 5th Viscount Howe Description of subject: The 5th Viscount Howe was a British noble title in the Peerage of Great Britain, notably held by General Sir William Howe, a commander of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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5th Viscount Howe