William Cadogan
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William Cadogan was a prominent Anglo-Irish soldier and Whig politician who rose to high command under the Duke of Marlborough and later played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Cadogan canonical | 6 |
| William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T466384 — 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 Cadogan Context triple: [Jacobite rising of 1715, governmentCommander, William Cadogan]
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A.
Julian Byng
Julian Byng was a British Army officer and First World War general who later served as Governor General of Canada.
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B.
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts was a British Army officer and the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Boer War.
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C.
Alan Brooke
Alan Brooke was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II and was one of the principal architects of Allied strategy.
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D.
Sir William Ashburnham
Sir William Ashburnham was an 18th-century British politician and courtier who held senior governmental and royal household positions, including a key financial role in the Royal Navy.
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E.
Lord Wavell
Lord Wavell was a British field marshal and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of India during the final years of the British Raj in World War II and the lead-up to Indian independence.
- 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 Cadogan Target entity description: William Cadogan was a prominent Anglo-Irish soldier and Whig politician who rose to high command under the Duke of Marlborough and later played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715.
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A.
Julian Byng
Julian Byng was a British Army officer and First World War general who later served as Governor General of Canada.
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B.
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts was a British Army officer and the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Boer War.
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C.
Alan Brooke
Alan Brooke was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II and was one of the principal architects of Allied strategy.
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D.
Sir William Ashburnham
Sir William Ashburnham was an 18th-century British politician and courtier who held senior governmental and royal household positions, including a key financial role in the Royal Navy.
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E.
Lord Wavell
Lord Wavell was a British field marshal and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of India during the final years of the British Raj in World War II and the lead-up to Indian independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Cadogan Description of subject: William Cadogan was a prominent Anglo-Irish soldier and Whig politician who rose to high command under the Duke of Marlborough and later played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cadogan family
this entity surface form:
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
this entity surface form:
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
this entity surface form:
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
this entity surface form:
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
this entity surface form:
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
this entity surface form:
William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan