Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
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Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington was a British peer and Conservative politician who served as a senior military officer and statesman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inheriting the ducal title from the famous family of the first Duke of Wellington.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 3rd Duke of Wellington | 2 |
| Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9103438 — 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: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington Context triple: [Wellesley family, notableMember, Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington]
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A.
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
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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B.
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, is a British peer and descendant of the famous military leader and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
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C.
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, was a British peer and politician who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament and later in the House of Lords, continuing the aristocratic legacy of the Wellington family.
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D.
Arthur Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, was a 19th-century British peer and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and ceremonial positions.
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E.
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, was a 19th-century British peer and Conservative politician who served as Lord of the Treasury and Master of the Horse, and was the son of the famous general and prime minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington.
- 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: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington Target entity description: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington was a British peer and Conservative politician who served as a senior military officer and statesman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inheriting the ducal title from the famous family of the first Duke of Wellington.
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A.
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
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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B.
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, is a British peer and descendant of the famous military leader and statesman Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
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C.
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington, was a British peer and politician who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament and later in the House of Lords, continuing the aristocratic legacy of the Wellington family.
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D.
Arthur Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, was a 19th-century British peer and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and ceremonial positions.
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E.
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, was a 19th-century British peer and Conservative politician who served as Lord of the Treasury and Master of the Horse, and was the son of the famous general and prime minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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British peer ⓘ Conservative politician ⓘ duke ⓘ human ⓘ member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| activityPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| aristocraticRank | duke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| describedAs |
British statesman
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senior military officer ⓘ |
| familyName | Wellesley ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Wellesley family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Wellington ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | descendant of the 1st Duke of Wellington ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle |
3rd Duke of Wellington
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linked to:
Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
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| politicalAlignment | Conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
British Army officer
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member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| titleInheritedFrom | family of the 1st Duke of Wellington ⓘ |
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: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington Description of subject: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington was a British peer and Conservative politician who served as a senior military officer and statesman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inheriting the ducal title from the famous family of the first Duke of Wellington.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington
linked to: Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington