Williamite army
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The Williamite army was the military force loyal to William III during the Williamite War in Ireland, composed largely of English, Dutch, Danish, and other Protestant troops fighting against Jacobite supporters of James II.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Williamite forces | 5 |
| William III’s English Army | 1 |
| Williamite Army in Ireland | 1 |
| Williamite army canonical | 1 |
| Williamite army in Ireland | 1 |
| Williamite army of Ireland | 1 |
| Williamite government forces | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2676669 — 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: Williamite army Context triple: [Siege of Limerick (1690–1691), attackedBy, Williamite army]
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A.
Munster Parliamentarian army
The Munster Parliamentarian army was a regional force aligned with the English Parliament during the Irish Confederate Wars, active mainly in southern Ireland and composed of Protestant troops opposing Confederate and Royalist forces.
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Royal Army of King James II
The Royal Army of King James II was the late 17th-century English monarch’s standing force, composed largely of professional troops and loyalist militias used to suppress rebellions and defend his contested rule.
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Jacobite Irish Army
The Jacobite Irish Army was the force loyal to the deposed King James II in Ireland during the Williamite War, composed largely of Irish Catholic troops fighting to restore his rule against Williamite forces.
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Scottish Covenanter army
The Scottish Covenanter army was the military force raised by Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th century to defend their religious and political covenants, notably fighting in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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New Model Army
The New Model Army was the disciplined, centrally organized parliamentary force that played a decisive role in winning the English Civil War and enabling the rise of Oliver Cromwell.
- 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: Williamite army Target entity description: The Williamite army was the military force loyal to William III during the Williamite War in Ireland, composed largely of English, Dutch, Danish, and other Protestant troops fighting against Jacobite supporters of James II.
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A.
Munster Parliamentarian army
The Munster Parliamentarian army was a regional force aligned with the English Parliament during the Irish Confederate Wars, active mainly in southern Ireland and composed of Protestant troops opposing Confederate and Royalist forces.
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B.
Royal Army of King James II
The Royal Army of King James II was the late 17th-century English monarch’s standing force, composed largely of professional troops and loyalist militias used to suppress rebellions and defend his contested rule.
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C.
Jacobite Irish Army
The Jacobite Irish Army was the force loyal to the deposed King James II in Ireland during the Williamite War, composed largely of Irish Catholic troops fighting to restore his rule against Williamite forces.
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D.
Scottish Covenanter army
The Scottish Covenanter army was the military force raised by Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th century to defend their religious and political covenants, notably fighting in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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E.
New Model Army
The New Model Army was the disciplined, centrally organized parliamentary force that played a decisive role in winning the English Civil War and enabling the rise of Oliver Cromwell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Williamite army Description of subject: The Williamite army was the military force loyal to William III during the Williamite War in Ireland, composed largely of English, Dutch, Danish, and other Protestant troops fighting against Jacobite supporters of James II.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William III’s English Army
this entity surface form:
Williamite government forces
this entity surface form:
Williamite forces
this entity surface form:
Williamite army in Ireland
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Cath Eachroma
this entity surface form:
Williamite forces
this entity surface form:
Williamite army of Ireland
this entity surface form:
Williamite forces
this entity surface form:
Williamite Army in Ireland
this entity surface form:
Williamite forces
this entity surface form:
Williamite forces