brigadier general (James Yorke Scarlett)
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Brigadier General 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 |
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| brigadier general (James Yorke Scarlett) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7028325 — 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: brigadier general (James Yorke Scarlett) Context triple: [Charge of the Heavy Brigade, commanderRank, brigadier general (James Yorke Scarlett)]
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A.
Colonel Blount
Colonel Blount is a comic, old-fashioned military figure in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Vile Bodies," embodying the blustering, out-of-touch attitudes of the older generation.
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B.
Colonel John Barnwell
Colonel John Barnwell was a colonial military officer from South Carolina known for leading early 18th-century campaigns against Native American groups, including during the Tuscarora War.
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C.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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D.
Colonel Howard
Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
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E.
Colonel Smith
Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
- 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: brigadier general (James Yorke Scarlett) Target entity description: Brigadier General 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.
Colonel Blount
Colonel Blount is a comic, old-fashioned military figure in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Vile Bodies," embodying the blustering, out-of-touch attitudes of the older generation.
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B.
Colonel John Barnwell
Colonel John Barnwell was a colonial military officer from South Carolina known for leading early 18th-century campaigns against Native American groups, including during the Tuscarora War.
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C.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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D.
Colonel Howard
Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
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E.
Colonel Smith
Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| chargeLed | Charge of the Heavy Brigade ⓘ |
| conflict | Crimean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | Scarlett ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| middleName | Yorke ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance |
British Empire
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
Heavy Brigade
ⓘ
linked to:
British Heavy Brigade
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| 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 ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Battle of Balaclava
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Crimean War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | brigadier general ⓘ |
| rank |
brigadier general
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general ⓘ |
| relative | Scarlett family ⓘ |
| 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: brigadier general (James Yorke Scarlett) Description of subject: Brigadier General 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 (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.