12th Earl of Cork
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The 12th Earl of Cork is an Irish peerage title held by William Henry Dudley Boyle, a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 12th Earl of Cork canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7752108 — 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: 12th Earl of Cork Context triple: [William Henry Dudley Boyle, title, 12th Earl of Cork]
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1st Earl of Cork
The 1st Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, was a powerful early 17th-century Anglo-Irish statesman and landowner who became one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in Ireland under the Stuart monarchy.
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B.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier, and statesman who played a leading role in Royalist politics and military campaigns in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Restoration era.
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C.
Earl of Cork and Orrery
The Earl of Cork and Orrery is a compound Irish peerage title historically associated with the influential Boyle family, prominent in Anglo-Irish politics and society.
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D.
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, was an influential 18th-century Irish nobleman and politician who became the premier duke in the Irish peerage and head of the powerful FitzGerald family.
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E.
Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster
Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster was an Irish peer and aristocrat of the prominent FitzGerald family, serving as head of one of Ireland’s most historically significant noble houses 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: 12th Earl of Cork Target entity description: The 12th Earl of Cork is an Irish peerage title held by William Henry Dudley Boyle, a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
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A.
1st Earl of Cork
The 1st Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, was a powerful early 17th-century Anglo-Irish statesman and landowner who became one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in Ireland under the Stuart monarchy.
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B.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier, and statesman who played a leading role in Royalist politics and military campaigns in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Restoration era.
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C.
Earl of Cork and Orrery
The Earl of Cork and Orrery is a compound Irish peerage title historically associated with the influential Boyle family, prominent in Anglo-Irish politics and society.
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D.
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, was an influential 18th-century Irish nobleman and politician who became the premier duke in the Irish peerage and head of the powerful FitzGerald family.
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E.
Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster
Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster was an Irish peer and aristocrat of the prominent FitzGerald family, serving as head of one of Ireland’s most historically significant noble houses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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member of the British nobility ⓘ member of the Irish peerage ⓘ peer ⓘ |
| associatedTitleTerritory |
County Cork
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Orrery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Anglo-Irish ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasStyle | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| holdsTitleFrom |
Boyle family line
ⓘ
linked to:
Boyle family
|
| honorificPrefix | Lord ⓘ |
| memberOf | Anglo-Irish aristocracy ⓘ |
| nobilityType | hereditary peer ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Boyle family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Earl of Cork
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Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
12th Earl of Cork
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12th Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| precededBy | 11th Earl of Cork ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| titleInPeerage |
Peerage of Great Britain
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Peerage of Ireland ⓘ |
| titleNature | noble title holder ⓘ |
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: 12th Earl of Cork Description of subject: The 12th Earl of Cork is an Irish peerage title held by William Henry Dudley Boyle, a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
12th Earl of Cork