William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
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William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Lord Privy Seal and held several other high offices in the 19th-century UK government.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5368464 — 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 Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland Context triple: [Lady Dorothy Cavendish, child, William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland]
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William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who rose to prominence as a leading Whig peer and influential landowner.
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a prominent peer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the father of the society hostess and patron of the arts Lady Ottoline Morrell.
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C.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was a reclusive 19th-century British aristocrat famed for his eccentric lifestyle and the extensive network of underground tunnels he had constructed on his estate at Welbeck Abbey.
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Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland
Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland, was a British peer and member of the aristocratic Cavendish-Bentinck family who held the Portland dukedom in the 20th century.
- 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 Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland Target entity description: William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Lord Privy Seal and held several other high offices in the 19th-century UK government.
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A.
William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who rose to prominence as a leading Whig peer and influential landowner.
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B.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a prominent peer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the father of the society hostess and patron of the arts Lady Ottoline Morrell.
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C.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was a reclusive 19th-century British aristocrat famed for his eccentric lifestyle and the extensive network of underground tunnels he had constructed on his estate at Welbeck Abbey.
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E.
Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland
Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland, was a British peer and member of the aristocratic Cavendish-Bentinck family who held the Portland dukedom in the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
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British politician ⓘ duke ⓘ human ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitle | British duke ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Bentinck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
government
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politics ⓘ |
| genre | 19th-century British politics ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | The Duke of Portland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lifestyle | landed aristocrat ⓘ |
| memberOf |
British aristocracy
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House of Lords ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Tory Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Portland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | holding several high offices in 19th-century UK government ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in high offices of 19th-century UK government ⓘ |
| occupation |
nobleman
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politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInTitle | 4th Duke of Portland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Bentinck family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lord Chamberlain
NERFINISHED
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Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord President of the Council ⓘ Lord Privy Seal ⓘ Master of the Horse NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ Member of the House of Lords ⓘ cabinet minister of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Welbeck Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | United Kingdom government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | His Grace ⓘ |
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: William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland Description of subject: William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Lord Privy Seal and held several other high offices in the 19th-century UK government.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland
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father
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William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
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William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland
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precededBy
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William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
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