Earl of Doncaster
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The Earl of Doncaster was a noble title in the Peerage of England notably held by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of King Charles II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earl of Doncaster canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7178179 — 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 Doncaster Context triple: [James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, title, Earl of Doncaster]
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A.
Earl of Dorincourt
The Earl of Dorincourt is a wealthy, initially cold and aristocratic English nobleman who undergoes a moral transformation through his relationship with his young grandson in the story "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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B.
Earl of Stockton
The Earl of Stockton is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1984 for former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and held by his descendants.
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C.
Earl of Ripon
The Earl of Ripon was a British peerage title most notably held by Frederick John Robinson, a 19th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister.
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D.
Earl of Selborne
The Earl of Selborne is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, historically associated with the prominent British lawyer and statesman Roundell Palmer and his descendants.
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E.
Earl of Derby
The Earl of Derby is a historic English peerage title long associated with the influential Stanley family, prominent in politics and noble affairs since the late Middle Ages.
- 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 Doncaster Target entity description: The Earl of Doncaster was a noble title in the Peerage of England notably held by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of King Charles II.
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A.
Earl of Dorincourt
The Earl of Dorincourt is a wealthy, initially cold and aristocratic English nobleman who undergoes a moral transformation through his relationship with his young grandson in the story "Little Lord Fauntleroy."
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B.
Earl of Stockton
The Earl of Stockton is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1984 for former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and held by his descendants.
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C.
Earl of Ripon
The Earl of Ripon was a British peerage title most notably held by Frederick John Robinson, a 19th-century British statesman who briefly served as Prime Minister.
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D.
Earl of Selborne
The Earl of Selborne is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, historically associated with the prominent British lawyer and statesman Roundell Palmer and his descendants.
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E.
Earl of Derby
The Earl of Derby is a historic English peerage title long associated with the influential Stanley family, prominent in politics and noble affairs since the late Middle Ages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | title in the Peerage of England ⓘ |
| associatedMonarch |
Charles I of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
English earldoms
ⓘ
Titles in the Peerage of England ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| hasGenderRestriction | male-preference succession ⓘ |
| hasPart | subsidiary title of Duke of Monmouth ⓘ |
| heldBy |
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | associated with the Stuart monarchy ⓘ |
| isTitleOf |
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Doncaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamilyConnection | House of Stuart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitleType | hereditary title ⓘ |
| notableHolderDescription | James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth was the illegitimate son of King Charles II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | earldom ⓘ |
| titleHolderRole | English nobleman ⓘ |
| titleStyle | Earl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | Kingdom of Great Britain nobility context ⓘ |
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: Earl of Doncaster Description of subject: The Earl of Doncaster was a noble title in the Peerage of England notably held by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of King Charles II.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Montagu Douglas Scott family