Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton
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Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a senior peer and held various ceremonial and local public roles within the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton canonical | 1 |
| Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9102897 — 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: Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton Context triple: [Dukes of Grafton family, notableMember, Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th 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.
John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton
John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton, was a 19th-century British peer and landowner who held one of the prominent dukedoms in the English aristocracy.
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C.
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
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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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.
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.
- 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: Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton Target entity description: Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a senior peer and held various ceremonial and local public roles within the United Kingdom.
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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.
John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton
John Charles William FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton, was a 19th-century British peer and landowner who held one of the prominent dukedoms in the English aristocracy.
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C.
Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton
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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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
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duke ⓘ human ⓘ landowner ⓘ |
| aristocraticRank | duke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
|
| describedBySource |
British peerage records
ⓘ
United Kingdom aristocratic directories ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzRoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Denis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugh ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfNobleFamily |
FitzRoy family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Stuart illegitimate branch ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitleOrdinal | 11th Duke of Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
holder of ceremonial offices in Suffolk
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local public figure in the United Kingdom ⓘ senior peer in the House of Lords ⓘ |
| notableWork | management of the Euston Hall estate ⓘ |
| occupation |
aristocrat
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landowner ⓘ |
| partOf |
British aristocracy
ⓘ
Peerage of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Deputy Lieutenant
ⓘ
Duke of Grafton NERFINISHED ⓘ Justice of the Peace ⓘ Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ senior peer of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| residence |
Euston Hall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
ceremonial public service
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estate management ⓘ local government ⓘ |
| titleHeldFrom | 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: Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton Description of subject: Hugh Denis Charles FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton, was a British aristocrat and landowner who served as a senior peer and held various ceremonial and local public roles within the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton