Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman was a British Army officer and Special Service Brigade leader best known for commanding the daring World War II commando operation known as the St Nazaire Raid.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Charles Newman | 2 |
| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4469609 — 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 Charles Newman Context triple: [Raid on St Nazaire, commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman]
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine was a British Army officer best known for his ill-fated command of imperial forces during the disastrous 1879 Battle of Isandlwana in the Anglo-Zulu War.
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Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones was a British Army officer and posthumous Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his leadership and bravery during the Falklands War.
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Lieutenant Colonel John Butler
Lieutenant Colonel John Butler was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the irregular frontier unit known as Butler’s Rangers.
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Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford was a British Army officer and Royal Engineers commander in the Anglo-Zulu War, best known for his controversial role and death at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.
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E.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
- 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 Charles Newman Target entity description: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman was a British Army officer and Special Service Brigade leader best known for commanding the daring World War II commando operation known as the St Nazaire Raid.
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A.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pulleine was a British Army officer best known for his ill-fated command of imperial forces during the disastrous 1879 Battle of Isandlwana in the Anglo-Zulu War.
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B.
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones was a British Army officer and posthumous Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his leadership and bravery during the Falklands War.
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C.
Lieutenant Colonel John Butler
Lieutenant Colonel John Butler was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the irregular frontier unit known as Butler’s Rangers.
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D.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Durnford was a British Army officer and Royal Engineers commander in the Anglo-Zulu War, best known for his controversial role and death at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.
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E.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
- 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: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman Description of subject: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman was a British Army officer and Special Service Brigade leader best known for commanding the daring World War II commando operation known as the St Nazaire Raid.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman
linked to: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Newman