9th Earl of Orrery
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The 9th Earl of Orrery was an Irish peer in the Boyle family line of nobility, holding the earldom immediately before the 10th Earl of Orrery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 9th Earl of Orrery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8405327 — 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: 9th Earl of Orrery Context triple: [10th Earl of Orrery, hasPredecessorTitleHolder, 9th Earl of Orrery]
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10th Earl of Orrery
The 10th Earl of Orrery is a hereditary Irish peerage titleholder in the Earl of Orrery line, associated with the combined Cork and Orrery titles in the British aristocracy.
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B.
12th Earl of Orrery
The 12th Earl of Orrery is an Irish peerage title historically associated with the Boyle family, a prominent Anglo-Irish noble house.
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C.
The Earl of Athlone
The Earl of Athlone was a British royal and military figure who served as Governor General of Canada during the Second World War.
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D.
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, politician, and patron of the sciences whose name is commemorated in the mechanical model of the solar system known as an orrery.
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E.
The Earl of Willingdon
The Earl of Willingdon was a British colonial administrator who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India during the early 1930s.
- 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: 9th Earl of Orrery Target entity description: The 9th Earl of Orrery was an Irish peer in the Boyle family line of nobility, holding the earldom immediately before the 10th Earl of Orrery.
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A.
10th Earl of Orrery
The 10th Earl of Orrery is a hereditary Irish peerage titleholder in the Earl of Orrery line, associated with the combined Cork and Orrery titles in the British aristocracy.
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B.
12th Earl of Orrery
The 12th Earl of Orrery is an Irish peerage title historically associated with the Boyle family, a prominent Anglo-Irish noble house.
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C.
The Earl of Athlone
The Earl of Athlone was a British royal and military figure who served as Governor General of Canada during the Second World War.
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D.
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, politician, and patron of the sciences whose name is commemorated in the mechanical model of the solar system known as an orrery.
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E.
The Earl of Willingdon
The Earl of Willingdon was a British colonial administrator who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India during the early 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Earl
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Irish peer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | Boyle ⓘ |
| nobilityStatus | peer of Ireland ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Boyle family ⓘ |
| positionInSuccession | predecessor of 10th Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| precededBy | 8th Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| succeededBy | 10th Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
| title | Earl of Orrery ⓘ |
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: 9th Earl of Orrery Description of subject: The 9th Earl of Orrery was an Irish peer in the Boyle family line of nobility, holding the earldom immediately before the 10th Earl of Orrery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.