Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham
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Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, was a British aristocrat, politician, and cricketer who served as Governor-General of New Zealand from 1957 to 1962.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham canonical | 2 |
| 8th Viscount Cobham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11670475 — 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: Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham Context triple: [Viscount Cobham, hasTitleHolder, Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham]
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Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the mid-20th century.
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John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, was a British peer and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament before inheriting the Cobham viscountcy.
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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was an influential early 18th-century British soldier and Whig politician renowned for his military service in the War of the Spanish Succession and for developing the celebrated landscape gardens at Stowe.
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D.
Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton
Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton was a 19th-century British peer and politician who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament and held various public offices, including Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
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Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton
Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton was an 18th-century British peer and politician known for his turbulent personal life, literary interests, and early death under mysterious circumstances.
- 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: Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham Target entity description: Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, was a British aristocrat, politician, and cricketer who served as Governor-General of New Zealand from 1957 to 1962.
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A.
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, was a British aristocrat and politician who served as Governor-General of New Zealand in the mid-20th century.
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B.
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, was a British peer and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament before inheriting the Cobham viscountcy.
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C.
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was an influential early 18th-century British soldier and Whig politician renowned for his military service in the War of the Spanish Succession and for developing the celebrated landscape gardens at Stowe.
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D.
Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton
Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton was a 19th-century British peer and politician who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament and held various public offices, including Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
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E.
Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton
Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton was an 18th-century British peer and politician known for his turbulent personal life, literary interests, and early death under mysterious circumstances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
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Governor-General of New Zealand ⓘ cricketer ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedAsGovernorGeneralBy | monarch of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| aristocraticFamily | Lyttelton family ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| endTime | 1962 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lyttelton ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
public service
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sports ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| governorGeneralOf | New Zealand ⓘ |
| headOfStateRoleFor | New Zealand ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Viscount Cobham ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a British aristocrat
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playing first-class cricket ⓘ serving as Governor-General of New Zealand from 1957 to 1962 ⓘ |
| occupation |
cricketer
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peer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle |
8th Viscount Cobham
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linked to:
Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham
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| politicalSystem | constitutional monarchy ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor-General of New Zealand ⓘ |
| residence |
New Zealand
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| startTime | 1957 ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Viscount Cobham ⓘ |
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: Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham Description of subject: Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, was a British aristocrat, politician, and cricketer who served as Governor-General of New Zealand from 1957 to 1962.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham