Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford
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Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, was a British peer and politician, the eldest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister, and a notable figure in 18th-century English aristocratic and political life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford canonical | 2 |
| Robert Walpole | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8293189 — 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: Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford Context triple: [Walpole, hasNotableBearer, Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford]
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Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole was an 18th-century British statesman widely regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain and its longest-serving holder of the office.
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Viscount Walpole
Viscount Walpole is a British noble title associated with the influential Walpole family, notably linked to Robert Walpole, often regarded as Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
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Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, was an English Whig politician and landowner who served in Parliament and was later elevated to the peerage in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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William Pitt the Elder
William Pitt the Elder was an 18th-century British statesman and orator who led Britain to major victories in the Seven Years' War and became one of the most influential political figures of his era.
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William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin was a prominent English statesman and Lord High Treasurer under Queen Anne, noted for his key role in managing the finances of the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 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: Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford Target entity description: Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, was a British peer and politician, the eldest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister, and a notable figure in 18th-century English aristocratic and political life.
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A.
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole was an 18th-century British statesman widely regarded as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain and its longest-serving holder of the office.
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B.
Viscount Walpole
Viscount Walpole is a British noble title associated with the influential Walpole family, notably linked to Robert Walpole, often regarded as Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister.
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C.
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham, was an English Whig politician and landowner who served in Parliament and was later elevated to the peerage in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
William Pitt the Elder
William Pitt the Elder was an 18th-century British statesman and orator who led Britain to major victories in the Seven Years' War and became one of the most influential political figures of his era.
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E.
William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
William Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin was a prominent English statesman and Lord High Treasurer under Queen Anne, noted for his key role in managing the finances of the War of the Spanish Succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford Description of subject: Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford, was a British peer and politician, the eldest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first de facto Prime Minister, and a notable figure in 18th-century English aristocratic and political life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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