Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
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The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins in the 17th century, known for its long service in numerous major conflicts of the British Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7487535 — 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: Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Context triple: [Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, carriesTraditionsOf, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]
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Queen's Dragoon Guards
The Queen's Dragoon Guards is a cavalry regiment of the British Army known for its armoured reconnaissance role and long history of service in major conflicts.
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Queen's Regiment
The Queen's Regiment was a major infantry regiment of the British Army formed in the 1960s, primarily recruiting from southeast England and later amalgamated into the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.
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Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the 19th century and distinguished by its service in major conflicts including both World Wars.
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D.
Royal Sussex Regiment
The Royal Sussex Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with roots in Sussex, known for its long service in major conflicts from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
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E.
East Surrey Regiment
The East Surrey Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the late 19th century and distinguished by its service in major conflicts including both World Wars.
- 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: Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Target entity description: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins in the 17th century, known for its long service in numerous major conflicts of the British Empire.
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A.
Queen's Dragoon Guards
The Queen's Dragoon Guards is a cavalry regiment of the British Army known for its armoured reconnaissance role and long history of service in major conflicts.
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B.
Queen's Regiment
The Queen's Regiment was a major infantry regiment of the British Army formed in the 1960s, primarily recruiting from southeast England and later amalgamated into the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.
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C.
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the 19th century and distinguished by its service in major conflicts including both World Wars.
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D.
Royal Sussex Regiment
The Royal Sussex Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with roots in Sussex, known for its long service in major conflicts from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
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E.
East Surrey Regiment
The East Surrey Regiment was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the late 19th century and distinguished by its service in major conflicts including both World Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ line infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| associatedCounty |
Surrey
NERFINISHED
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West Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleHonour |
Afghanistan 1878–80
NERFINISHED
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Cassino NERFINISHED ⓘ Dettingen NERFINISHED ⓘ El Alamein NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisburg 1758 ⓘ Quebec 1759 NERFINISHED ⓘ Somme 1916 NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa 1899–1902 ⓘ Ypres 1917 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| disbandedOrAmalgamated | 1959 ⓘ |
| engagement |
American War of Independence
NERFINISHED
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Crimean War NERFINISHED ⓘ First World War NERFINISHED ⓘ French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacobite rising of 1715 NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacobite rising of 1745 NERFINISHED ⓘ Monmouth Rebellion NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Nine Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Boer War NERFINISHED ⓘ Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerName |
2nd Regiment of Foot
NERFINISHED
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Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen's Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrison | Guildford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Mutton Lancers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTheatreOfOperations |
India
NERFINISHED
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North Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Front NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Home Counties Brigade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raised | 1661 ⓘ |
| regimentalDepot | Stoughton Barracks, Guildford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regimentalMarch | The Queen's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regimentalTitleGrantedBy | Queen Catherine of Braganza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | line infantry ⓘ |
| uniformFacingColour | blue ⓘ |
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: Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Description of subject: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army with origins in the 17th century, known for its long service in numerous major conflicts of the British Empire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
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battleHonoursInheritedFrom
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Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
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