21st Lancers
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The 21st Lancers was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its dramatic charge during the 1898 Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, in which a young Winston Churchill took part.
All labels observed (1)
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| 21st Lancers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20490370 — 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: 21st Lancers Context triple: [Battle of Kerreri, participant, 21st Lancers]
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17th Lancers
The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
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16th Lancers
The 16th Lancers was a British Army cavalry regiment, later part of the Royal Armoured Corps, that served in numerous 19th- and 20th-century campaigns before eventual amalgamation.
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19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars
The 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars was a British Army cavalry regiment of the 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for its service in colonial campaigns and the First World War.
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12th Royal Lancers
The 12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army with a distinguished service record in major conflicts including both World Wars.
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E.
11th Hussars
The 11th Hussars was a British Army light cavalry regiment renowned for its participation in the Crimean War and its role in the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.
- 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: 21st Lancers Target entity description: The 21st Lancers was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its dramatic charge during the 1898 Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, in which a young Winston Churchill took part.
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A.
17th Lancers
The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
16th Lancers
The 16th Lancers was a British Army cavalry regiment, later part of the Royal Armoured Corps, that served in numerous 19th- and 20th-century campaigns before eventual amalgamation.
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C.
19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars
The 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars was a British Army cavalry regiment of the 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for its service in colonial campaigns and the First World War.
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D.
12th Royal Lancers
The 12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army with a distinguished service record in major conflicts including both World Wars.
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E.
11th Hussars
The 11th Hussars was a British Army light cavalry regiment renowned for its participation in the Crimean War and its role in the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.
- F. None of above. chosen
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