Rifleman William Mariner VC
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British Army soldier
First World War veteran
human
land warfare branch
military decoration
recipient of the Victoria Cross
war
Rifleman William Mariner VC was a British Army soldier of the First World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rifleman William Mariner VC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9625012 — 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 William Mariner VC Context triple: [King's Royal Rifle Corps, decoratedMember, Rifleman William Mariner VC]
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A.
Rifleman Henry May VC
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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B.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Stephen Dimmer VC
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Stephen Dimmer VC was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his exceptional bravery during World War I.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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."
- 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 William Mariner VC Target entity description: Rifleman William Mariner VC was a British Army soldier of the First World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
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A.
Rifleman Henry May VC
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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B.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Stephen Dimmer VC
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Stephen Dimmer VC was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his exceptional bravery during World War I.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army soldier
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First World War veteran ⓘ human ⓘ land warfare branch ⓘ military decoration ⓘ recipient of the Victoria Cross ⓘ war ⓘ |
| awardedFor | gallantry in the face of the enemy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Victoria Cross
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linked to:
The Victoria Cross
|
| conflict |
First World War
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linked to:
World War I
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| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Mariner ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Rifleman William Mariner VC ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | VC ⓘ |
| isHighestAwardOf |
British honours system for gallantry
ⓘ
linked to:
British honours system
|
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | gallantry in the face of the enemy ⓘ |
| rank | Rifleman ⓘ |
| servedIn | British Army ⓘ |
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 William Mariner VC Description of subject: Rifleman William Mariner VC was a British Army soldier of the First World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rifleman William Mariner VC