Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
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Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer of the World Wars, best known for commanding Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East and later serving as Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theatre during World War II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson canonical | 2 |
| Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson | 1 |
| General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T958353 — 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.
Target entity: Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson Context triple: [Middle East Command, notableCommander, Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson]
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Lord Wavell
Lord Wavell was a British field marshal and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of India during the final years of the British Raj in World War II and the lead-up to Indian independence.
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was a prominent British field marshal and imperial administrator best known for his military campaigns in Sudan and South Africa and for serving as Secretary of State for War during the early years of World War I.
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Alan Brooke
Alan Brooke was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II and was one of the principal architects of Allied strategy.
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Douglas Haig
Douglas Haig was a British senior army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front and became one of the most controversial military leaders of World War I.
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E.
William Cadogan
William Cadogan was a prominent Anglo-Irish soldier and Whig politician who rose to high command under the Duke of Marlborough and later played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson Target entity description: Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer of the World Wars, best known for commanding Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East and later serving as Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theatre during World War II.
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A.
Lord Wavell
Lord Wavell was a British field marshal and colonial administrator who served as Viceroy of India during the final years of the British Raj in World War II and the lead-up to Indian independence.
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B.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was a prominent British field marshal and imperial administrator best known for his military campaigns in Sudan and South Africa and for serving as Secretary of State for War during the early years of World War I.
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C.
Alan Brooke
Alan Brooke was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II and was one of the principal architects of Allied strategy.
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D.
Douglas Haig
Douglas Haig was a British senior army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front and became one of the most controversial military leaders of World War I.
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E.
William Cadogan
William Cadogan was a prominent Anglo-Irish soldier and Whig politician who rose to high command under the Duke of Marlborough and later played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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field marshal ⓘ human ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre
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surface form:
Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
Distinguished Service Order ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Order of St Michael and St George ⓘ Order of the Bath ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
Second Boer War ⓘ World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eton College
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Royal Military College, Sandhurst ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Military College Sandhurst
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| familyName | Wilson ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
Field Marshal
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Sir ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix |
DCB
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DSO ⓘ GCB ⓘ GCMG ⓘ |
| middleName | Maitland ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
field marshal
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general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East during World War II
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serving as Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre in World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork |
command of Allied forces in the Greek campaign of 1941
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command of Allied forces in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II ⓘ command of Middle East Command in World War II ⓘ leadership of Allied operations in Italy as Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean ⓘ planning and oversight of the Dodecanese Campaign ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission to the United States
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Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form:
Commander Allied Forces in the Mediterranean
Commander of the British Expeditionary Force to Greece ⓘ Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Command ⓘ
surface form:
Commander-in-Chief Middle East Command
Commander-in-Chief, Egypt ⓘ
surface form:
General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt
General Officer Commanding Palestine and Trans-Jordan ⓘ General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command ⓘ Governor of Gibraltar ⓘ Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre
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| serviceNumber | British Army officer service (number not specified) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson Description of subject: Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer of the World Wars, best known for commanding Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East and later serving as Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theatre during World War II.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.