Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
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Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, was a British peer, soldier, and diplomat who served as Ambassador to Spain and was a descendant of the famous Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gerald Valerian Wellesley | 1 |
| Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7534155 — 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: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington Context triple: [Wellesley, hasNotableBearer, Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington]
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A.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British military leader and statesman best known for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and later serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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B.
Lord Charles Wellesley
Lord Charles Wellesley was a British aristocrat and army officer, best known as the second son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the famed military commander and Prime Minister.
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C.
William Chetwood
William Chetwood was an 18th-century London bookseller, publisher, and theatre prompter known for issuing popular literary works and plays.
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D.
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, was a British diplomat and politician of the early 19th century, noted for his service as ambassador to Spain and later to Austria.
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E.
George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough
George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent British aristocrat and landowner of the Spencer-Churchill family who held the dukedom of Marlborough in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington Target entity description: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, was a British peer, soldier, and diplomat who served as Ambassador to Spain and was a descendant of the famous Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
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A.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British military leader and statesman best known for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and later serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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B.
Lord Charles Wellesley
Lord Charles Wellesley was a British aristocrat and army officer, best known as the second son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the famed military commander and Prime Minister.
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C.
William Chetwood
William Chetwood was an 18th-century London bookseller, publisher, and theatre prompter known for issuing popular literary works and plays.
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D.
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, was a British diplomat and politician of the early 19th century, noted for his service as ambassador to Spain and later to Austria.
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E.
George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough
George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent British aristocrat and landowner of the Spencer-Churchill family who held the dukedom of Marlborough in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
ⓘ
Duke of Wellington ⓘ architect ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| aristocraticFamily | Wellesley family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
NERFINISHED
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Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Knight of the Garter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1885-04-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| child | Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
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surface form:
First World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1972-01-04 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| educatedAt |
Eton College
ⓘ
Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| familyName | Wellesley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | country house architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | His Grace ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Lords ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant colonel ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | Grenadier Guards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Kathleen Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
7th Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo
NERFINISHED
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7th Duke of Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ 7th Duke of Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ 7th Prince of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a descendant of the 1st Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
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service as British Ambassador to Spain ⓘ |
| notableWork | architectural designs for country houses in Britain ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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diplomat ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
British Ambassador to Spain
NERFINISHED
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Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal ⓘ Lord Lieutenant of the County of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Apsley House
NERFINISHED
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Stratfield Saye House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Dorothy Violet Ashton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington Description of subject: Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, was a British peer, soldier, and diplomat who served as Ambassador to Spain and was a descendant of the famous Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gerald Valerian Wellesley