Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White (Australian)
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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White was an Australian Army officer best known for commanding Australian forces during the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign action at the Battle of the Nek in 1915.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White (Australian) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20253844 — 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: Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White (Australian) Context triple: [Battle of the Nek, commanderSide, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White (Australian)]
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A.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Whitehead
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Whitehead was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the Battle of Two Sisters in the Falklands War.
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B.
Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway
Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway was a British Army officer renowned for leading the 9th Parachute Battalion in the daring and pivotal D-Day assault on the Merville Battery in Normandy during World War II.
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C.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell was a British Army officer renowned for his crucial role in defending the farmhouse of Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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D.
Lieutenant-General Noel Irwin
Lieutenant-General Noel Irwin was a British Army officer best known for his controversial command of Eastern Army in India during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
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E.
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt was an Australian Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Timor in World War II.
- 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: Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White (Australian) Target entity description: Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Henry White was an Australian Army officer best known for commanding Australian forces during the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign action at the Battle of the Nek in 1915.
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A.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Whitehead
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Whitehead was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the Battle of Two Sisters in the Falklands War.
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B.
Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway
Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway was a British Army officer renowned for leading the 9th Parachute Battalion in the daring and pivotal D-Day assault on the Merville Battery in Normandy during World War II.
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C.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell
Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell was a British Army officer renowned for his crucial role in defending the farmhouse of Hougoumont during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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D.
Lieutenant-General Noel Irwin
Lieutenant-General Noel Irwin was a British Army officer best known for his controversial command of Eastern Army in India during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
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E.
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt
Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt was an Australian Army officer who commanded Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Timor in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.