Charles Alten
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Charles Alten was a Hanoverian-born British Army general best known for commanding the British 3rd Division during the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Waterloo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Alten canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8410310 — 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: Charles Alten Context triple: [British 3rd Division, notableCommander, Charles Alten]
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A.
William Speer
William Speer is a relatively obscure individual whose primary notability appears to derive from sharing the surname Speer, rather than from widely recognized historical or cultural achievements.
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B.
Arthur Aylesworth
Arthur Aylesworth was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Edward Leister
Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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D.
Chris Rosenau
Chris Rosenau is an American guitarist and composer best known for his intricate, experimental work in projects like Volcano Choir and the duo Collections of Colonies of Bees.
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E.
Philip De Guere
Philip De Guere was an American television and film writer-producer best known for creating and producing series such as "Simon & Simon" and working on genre shows like the 1980s revival of "The Twilight Zone."
- 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: Charles Alten Target entity description: Charles Alten was a Hanoverian-born British Army general best known for commanding the British 3rd Division during the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Waterloo.
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A.
William Speer
William Speer is a relatively obscure individual whose primary notability appears to derive from sharing the surname Speer, rather than from widely recognized historical or cultural achievements.
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B.
Arthur Aylesworth
Arthur Aylesworth was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Edward Leister
Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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D.
Chris Rosenau
Chris Rosenau is an American guitarist and composer best known for his intricate, experimental work in projects like Volcano Choir and the duo Collections of Colonies of Bees.
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E.
Philip De Guere
Philip De Guere was an American television and film writer-producer best known for creating and producing series such as "Simon & Simon" and working on genre shows like the 1980s revival of "The Twilight Zone."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hanoverian officer
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military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Hanover
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Waterloo
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Peninsular War ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Hanover
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| conflict | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Electorate of Hanover ⓘ |
| era | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| familyName | Alten ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
British Army
ⓘ
Hanoverian Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableEvent | service in the British Army as a Hanoverian-born officer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding the British 3rd Division during the Napoleonic Wars
ⓘ
role at the Battle of Waterloo ⓘ |
| notableWork | Command of the British 3rd Division at the Battle of Waterloo ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the British 3rd Division ⓘ |
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: Charles Alten Description of subject: Charles Alten was a Hanoverian-born British Army general best known for commanding the British 3rd Division during the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Waterloo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.