Rifleman Henry May VC
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Rifleman Henry May VC was a British Army soldier in the King's Royal Rifle Corps who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rifleman Henry May VC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9625011 — 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: Rifleman Henry May VC Context triple: [King's Royal Rifle Corps, decoratedMember, Rifleman Henry May VC]
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A.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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B.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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C.
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
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D.
Martin Doyle (VC)
Martin Doyle (VC) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
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E.
Claude Chavasse
Claude Chavasse is a fictional private detective and protective father in Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy film "Love in the Afternoon."
- 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: Rifleman Henry May VC Target entity description: Rifleman Henry May VC was a British Army soldier in the King's Royal Rifle Corps who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
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A.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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B.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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C.
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
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D.
Martin Doyle (VC)
Martin Doyle (VC) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
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E.
Claude Chavasse
Claude Chavasse is a fictional private detective and protective father in Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy film "Love in the Afternoon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army soldier
ⓘ
Victoria Cross recipient ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Victoria Cross
ⓘ
linked to:
The Victoria Cross
|
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | May ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | VC ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | King's Royal Rifle Corps ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Rifleman ⓘ |
| notableFor | exceptional bravery during World War I ⓘ |
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: Rifleman Henry May VC Description of subject: Rifleman Henry May VC was a British Army soldier in the King's Royal Rifle Corps who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during World War I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.