Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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The Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was a prominent British peerage title created in the early 18th century for influential statesman Robert Harley, a leading Tory politician and minister under Queen Anne.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer canonical | 4 |
| Earl Mortimer | 1 |
| Earl of Oxford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136834 — 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: Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Context triple: [Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, nobleTitle, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer]
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Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was an 18th-century British peer, politician, and notable patron and collector of books and manuscripts whose library became foundational to the British Museum.
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Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, was a prominent 13th-century English nobleman and Marcher lord who expanded the Mortimer family’s power along the Welsh border through military service and strategic alliances.
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1st Earl of Pembroke
The 1st Earl of Pembroke was a prominent English noble title in the High Middle Ages, most famously held by the knight and statesman William Marshal, a key figure in the reigns of several Plantagenet kings.
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D.
Earl of Pembroke
Earl of Pembroke was the original name of the British coal-carrying bark later refitted and famously used by Captain James Cook as HMS Endeavour on his first voyage of exploration.
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E.
Earl of Lancaster
The Earl of Lancaster was a prominent English noble title in the High Middle Ages, associated with great territorial power and influence within the English royal family.
- 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: Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Target entity description: The Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was a prominent British peerage title created in the early 18th century for influential statesman Robert Harley, a leading Tory politician and minister under Queen Anne.
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A.
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was an 18th-century British peer, politician, and notable patron and collector of books and manuscripts whose library became foundational to the British Museum.
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B.
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer
Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer, was a prominent 13th-century English nobleman and Marcher lord who expanded the Mortimer family’s power along the Welsh border through military service and strategic alliances.
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C.
1st Earl of Pembroke
The 1st Earl of Pembroke was a prominent English noble title in the High Middle Ages, most famously held by the knight and statesman William Marshal, a key figure in the reigns of several Plantagenet kings.
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D.
Earl of Pembroke
Earl of Pembroke was the original name of the British coal-carrying bark later refitted and famously used by Captain James Cook as HMS Endeavour on his first voyage of exploration.
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E.
Earl of Lancaster
The Earl of Lancaster was a prominent English noble title in the High Middle Ages, associated with great territorial power and influence within the English royal family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Description of subject: The Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was a prominent British peerage title created in the early 18th century for influential statesman Robert Harley, a leading Tory politician and minister under Queen Anne.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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nobleTitle
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Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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subject linked to:
Lord Oxford
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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nobleTitle
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Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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linked to: Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
linked to: Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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nobleTitle
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Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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subject linked to:
Elizabeth Foley