Duke of Wellington's Regiment
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The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army with strong ties to Yorkshire and a distinguished service record in numerous major conflicts.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13297372 — 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: Duke of Wellington's Regiment Context triple: [Yorkshire Regiment, formedByAmalgamationOf, Duke of Wellington's Regiment]
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Royal Regiment of Foot
The Royal Regiment of Foot was a historic British Army infantry regiment that served as one of the senior line regiments in numerous campaigns over several centuries.
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Middlesex Regiment
The Middlesex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, known for its long service history from the 19th century through both World Wars before its eventual amalgamation into the Queen's Regiment.
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C.
British 87th Regiment of Foot
The British 87th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, active during the Napoleonic Wars and noted for its distinguished combat record in the Peninsular campaign.
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Royal Hampshire Regiment
The Royal Hampshire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins dating back to the 18th century, known for its distinguished service in numerous major conflicts before its amalgamation in the early 1990s.
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Prince of Wales’s Own
Prince of Wales’s Own is an honorary regimental title signifying a formal association with the Prince of Wales within the British Army.
- 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: Duke of Wellington's Regiment Target entity description: The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army with strong ties to Yorkshire and a distinguished service record in numerous major conflicts.
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A.
Royal Regiment of Foot
The Royal Regiment of Foot was a historic British Army infantry regiment that served as one of the senior line regiments in numerous campaigns over several centuries.
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B.
Middlesex Regiment
The Middlesex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, known for its long service history from the 19th century through both World Wars before its eventual amalgamation into the Queen's Regiment.
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C.
British 87th Regiment of Foot
The British 87th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, active during the Napoleonic Wars and noted for its distinguished combat record in the Peninsular campaign.
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D.
Royal Hampshire Regiment
The Royal Hampshire Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins dating back to the 18th century, known for its distinguished service in numerous major conflicts before its amalgamation in the early 1990s.
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E.
Prince of Wales’s Own
Prince of Wales’s Own is an honorary regimental title signifying a formal association with the Prince of Wales within the British Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Duke of Wellington's Regiment Description of subject: The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army with strong ties to Yorkshire and a distinguished service record in numerous major conflicts.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Duke of Wellington's Regiment
2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment
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formedByAmalgamationOf
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Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding)
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linked to: Duke of Wellington's Regiment
linked to: Duke of Wellington's Regiment