William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst
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William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, was a British diplomat and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India from 1823 to 1828.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst canonical | 2 |
| 2nd Baron Amherst | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6202575 — 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 Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst Context triple: [Baron Amherst, notableTitleHolder, William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst]
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A.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
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B.
Edward Pakenham
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
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C.
Sir John Shore
Sir John Shore was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India in the late 18th century, known for his cautious policies and emphasis on non-intervention.
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D.
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis was a distinguished Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his leadership during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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E.
William Clive
William Clive is a notable individual bearing the surname Clive, recognized in historical and biographical records associated with the Clive family name.
- 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 Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst Target entity description: William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, was a British diplomat and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India from 1823 to 1828.
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A.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
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B.
Edward Pakenham
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
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C.
Sir John Shore
Sir John Shore was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India in the late 18th century, known for his cautious policies and emphasis on non-intervention.
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D.
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis was a distinguished Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his leadership during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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E.
William Clive
William Clive is a notable individual bearing the surname Clive, recognized in historical and biographical records associated with the Clive family name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst Description of subject: William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst, was a British diplomat and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India from 1823 to 1828.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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