Royal Leicestershire Regiment
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The Royal Leicestershire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins in the 17th century, known for its long service in numerous campaigns across the British Empire and both World Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Royal Leicestershire Regiment canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13152385 — 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: Royal Leicestershire Regiment Context triple: [Royal Anglian Regiment, upholdsTraditionsOf, Royal Leicestershire Regiment]
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Royal Anglian Regiment
The Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1964, that recruits primarily from the East of England and upholds traditions from several historic county regiments.
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B.
Royal Berkshire Regiment
The Royal Berkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army with a long history of service in major conflicts, including both World Wars.
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C.
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with distinguished service in numerous conflicts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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D.
Manchester Regiment
The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served in major conflicts from the late 19th century through both World Wars.
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E.
South Staffordshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the 19th century and noted for its service in major conflicts including the Second Boer War and both World Wars.
- 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: Royal Leicestershire Regiment Target entity description: The Royal Leicestershire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins in the 17th century, known for its long service in numerous campaigns across the British Empire and both World Wars.
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A.
Royal Anglian Regiment
The Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1964, that recruits primarily from the East of England and upholds traditions from several historic county regiments.
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B.
Royal Berkshire Regiment
The Royal Berkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army with a long history of service in major conflicts, including both World Wars.
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C.
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with distinguished service in numerous conflicts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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D.
Manchester Regiment
The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served in major conflicts from the late 19th century through both World Wars.
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E.
South Staffordshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the 19th century and noted for its service in major conflicts including the Second Boer War and both World Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ line infantry regiment ⓘ |
| alliedTo | Canadian regiments NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amalgamatedInto | Royal Anglian Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Leicestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleHonour |
Afghanistan 1878–80
NERFINISHED
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Burma 1942–45 ⓘ Dettingen NERFINISHED ⓘ El Alamein NERFINISHED ⓘ Loos NERFINISHED ⓘ Normandy 1944 NERFINISHED ⓘ Passchendaele NERFINISHED ⓘ Somme 1916 NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa 1899–1902 ⓘ Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ypres 1917 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| capBadgeFeature | tiger ⓘ |
| category |
Military units and formations disestablished in 1964
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Military units and formations established in 1688 ⓘ Regiments of the British Army ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateDisbanded | 1964 ⓘ |
| dateFormed | 1688 ⓘ |
| garrison | Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor |
17th Regiment of Foot
NERFINISHED
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Leicestershire Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
4th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
NERFINISHED
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Royal Anglian Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | Honi soit qui mal y pense NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Tigers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| raisedIn | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivedRoyalTitle | 1946 ⓘ |
| regimentalDepot | Glen Parva Barracks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regimentalMuseum | Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | infantry ⓘ |
| servedIn |
First World War
NERFINISHED
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Indian Mutiny NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Boer War NERFINISHED ⓘ Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ various colonial campaigns ⓘ |
| tradition | tiger emblem from service in India ⓘ |
| type | line infantry ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Royal Leicestershire Regiment Description of subject: The Royal Leicestershire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins in the 17th century, known for its long service in numerous campaigns across the British Empire and both World Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.