James Yorke Scarlett
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James Yorke Scarlett was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful but overshadowed charge of the Heavy Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Yorke Scarlett canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6961578 — 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: James Yorke Scarlett Context triple: [British Heavy Brigade, commander, James Yorke Scarlett]
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A.
Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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B.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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C.
Thomas Mars
Thomas Mars is a French musician best known as the lead vocalist of the indie pop band Phoenix.
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D.
Craig Wedren
Craig Wedren is an American composer and musician best known as the lead singer of the band Shudder to Think and for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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E.
Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and for his acclaimed solo work and surround-sound remixes.
- 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: James Yorke Scarlett Target entity description: James Yorke Scarlett was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful but overshadowed charge of the Heavy Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.
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A.
Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke is an English musician best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
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B.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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C.
Thomas Mars
Thomas Mars is a French musician best known as the lead vocalist of the indie pop band Phoenix.
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D.
Craig Wedren
Craig Wedren is an American composer and musician best known as the lead singer of the band Shudder to Think and for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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E.
Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson is an English musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the founder of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and for his acclaimed solo work and surround-sound remixes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| conflict | Crimean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs |
British Army officer of the Crimean War
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leader of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava ⓘ |
| familyName | Scarlett ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| middleName | Yorke ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
general
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major-general ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
Heavy Brigade
ⓘ
linked to:
British Heavy Brigade
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Balaclava
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Charge of the Heavy Brigade ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava ⓘ |
| notableWork | Charge of the Heavy Brigade ⓘ |
| partOf | British forces in the Crimean War ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Crimea
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the Heavy Brigade ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: James Yorke Scarlett Description of subject: James Yorke Scarlett was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful but overshadowed charge of the Heavy Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.