Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
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Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton was a British aristocrat and peer who held the ducal title in the prominent FitzRoy family during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9102895 — 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: Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton Context triple: [Dukes of Grafton family, notableMember, Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton]
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William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton
William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton was a 19th-century British peer and politician who held high office as Lord Chamberlain and was a prominent member of the aristocratic FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
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B.
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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Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
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D.
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, naval officer, and illegitimate son of King Charles II who played a notable role in the military and court life of the Restoration era.
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E.
8th Duke of Devonshire
The 8th Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, was a prominent 19th-century British statesman and aristocrat who held senior political offices including Leader of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionists.
- 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: Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton Target entity description: Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton was a British aristocrat and peer who held the ducal title in the prominent FitzRoy family during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton
William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton was a 19th-century British peer and politician who held high office as Lord Chamberlain and was a prominent member of the aristocratic FitzRoy family descended from King Charles II.
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B.
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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C.
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who held high court offices and military commands under the early Hanoverian monarchs.
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D.
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, naval officer, and illegitimate son of King Charles II who played a notable role in the military and court life of the Restoration era.
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E.
8th Duke of Devonshire
The 8th Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, was a prominent 19th-century British statesman and aristocrat who held senior political offices including Leader of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
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duke ⓘ human ⓘ |
| aristocraticRank | duke ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzRoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alfred ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfNobleFamily | FitzRoy family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of FitzRoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a British aristocrat in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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holding the ducal title in the FitzRoy family ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle | 8th Duke of Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
British peerage
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Peerage of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
British peer
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Duke of Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton Description of subject: Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton was a British aristocrat and peer who held the ducal title in the prominent FitzRoy family during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.