Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell
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Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell was a British East India Company officer best known for commanding forces during the Anglo-Nepalese War, particularly in the early campaigns against the Gurkhas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8124465 — 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: Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell Context triple: [Battle of Nalapani, commander, Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell]
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A.
Colonel Douglas Mortimer
Colonel Douglas Mortimer is a vengeful, sharpshooting former army officer and bounty hunter portrayed by Lee Van Cleef in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western film "For a Few Dollars More."
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B.
Colonel Nicholson
Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
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C.
Lord Millett
Lord Millett was a prominent British judge and law lord renowned for his influential judgments in commercial and trust law.
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D.
Captain Daniel Forrester
Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
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E.
Charles Egremont
Charles Egremont is the idealistic young aristocratic protagonist of Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Sybil, or The Two Nations," whose political and romantic journey highlights the social divisions of 19th-century England.
- 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: Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell Target entity description: Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell was a British East India Company officer best known for commanding forces during the Anglo-Nepalese War, particularly in the early campaigns against the Gurkhas.
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A.
Colonel Douglas Mortimer
Colonel Douglas Mortimer is a vengeful, sharpshooting former army officer and bounty hunter portrayed by Lee Van Cleef in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western film "For a Few Dollars More."
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B.
Colonel Nicholson
Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
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C.
Lord Millett
Lord Millett was a prominent British judge and law lord renowned for his influential judgments in commercial and trust law.
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D.
Captain Daniel Forrester
Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
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E.
Charles Egremont
Charles Egremont is the idealistic young aristocratic protagonist of Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Sybil, or The Two Nations," whose political and romantic journey highlights the social divisions of 19th-century England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British East India Company officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict | Anglo-Nepalese War ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | British East India Company ⓘ |
| familyName | Martindell ⓘ |
| givenName | Sebastian ⓘ |
| middleName | Xavier ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
British East India Company Army
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linked to:
British East India Company forces
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| militaryRank | Colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding British East India Company forces during the Anglo-Nepalese War
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early campaigns against the Gurkhas in the Anglo-Nepalese War ⓘ |
| opponent |
Gurkhas
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linked to:
Gurkha units
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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: Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell Description of subject: Colonel Sebastian Xavier Martindell was a British East India Company officer best known for commanding forces during the Anglo-Nepalese War, particularly in the early campaigns against the Gurkhas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.