Sir William Godolphin
E751958
Sir William Godolphin was a prominent member of the influential Godolphin family of Cornwall, known for his role in English political and public life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir William Godolphin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8647397 — 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: Sir William Godolphin Context triple: [Godolphin family of Cornwall, hasMember, Sir William Godolphin]
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A.
John Godolphin
John Godolphin was a 17th-century English jurist and legal scholar, noted for his writings on civil and maritime law.
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B.
Sir Francis Godolphin
Sir Francis Godolphin was an English landowner and politician from the prominent Godolphin family of Cornwall, active in local and national affairs in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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C.
Baron Godolphin
Baron Godolphin is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain historically associated with the influential Godolphin family, notably the statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin.
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D.
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
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E.
Earl of Godolphin
The Earl of Godolphin is a historic British peerage title associated with the influential Godolphin family, notably linked to high political office in the late 17th and early 18th 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: Sir William Godolphin Target entity description: Sir William Godolphin was a prominent member of the influential Godolphin family of Cornwall, known for his role in English political and public life.
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A.
John Godolphin
John Godolphin was a 17th-century English jurist and legal scholar, noted for his writings on civil and maritime law.
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B.
Sir Francis Godolphin
Sir Francis Godolphin was an English landowner and politician from the prominent Godolphin family of Cornwall, active in local and national affairs in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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C.
Baron Godolphin
Baron Godolphin is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain historically associated with the influential Godolphin family, notably the statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin.
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D.
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Grafton dukedom and sat in the House of Lords.
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E.
Earl of Godolphin
The Earl of Godolphin is a historic British peerage title associated with the influential Godolphin family, notably linked to high political office in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English politician
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Member of Parliament of England ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Parliament of England
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local government in Cornwall ⓘ tin mining interests in Cornwall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Godolphin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
politics
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public administration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Godolphin family
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linked to:
Godolphin family of Cornwall
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| nobleTitle | knight ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Godolphin family
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linked to:
Godolphin family of Cornwall
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| notableFor |
influence in Cornish politics
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membership of an influential Cornish family ⓘ role in administration of the stannary (tin-mining) districts of Cornwall ⓘ service in local government in Cornwall ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
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politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall
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Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall ⓘ High Sheriff of Cornwall ⓘ Justice of the Peace ⓘ Lord Warden of the Stannaries ⓘ Member of Parliament ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Cornwall
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England ⓘ |
| representedInParliament |
Cornwall
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Helston ⓘ Lostwithiel ⓘ Penryn ⓘ St Ives ⓘ |
| residence | Cornwall ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
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: Sir William Godolphin Description of subject: Sir William Godolphin was a prominent member of the influential Godolphin family of Cornwall, known for his role in English political and public life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.