Contact on ipad and iphone duplicated or triplicated

both iphone and ipad have my contacts triplicated or quadruplicated. How can I sink them so they only appear once in each devise?

I have checked iTunes Sync - and this is not the issue.
I have tried cancelling iCloud on all my devices with the exception of the MacBoook (which is the machine on which I made the move from MobileMe toi iCloud), but am not sure how to remove the duplicate entries that are on my iCloud server - this is what I need to do in my understanding.
I have to remove the duplictaes at the root of the problem, otherwise, each time I re-instate iCloud on my devices, they draw down the same duplicated calender entries.
I am concerned about loosing everything if I remove iCloud off all devices (including the MacBook), and still not confident it will resolve my issue until the duplicates are removed at the root of the problem - ie. iCloud.

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