1987 United Kingdom general election
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The 1987 United Kingdom general election was a national parliamentary vote in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a third consecutive term in office.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1987 United Kingdom general election canonical | 10 |
| 1987 United Kingdom general election in East Lothian | 1 |
| 1987 United Kingdom general election in Wakefield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T965744 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1987 United Kingdom general election Context triple: [Margaret Thatcher government, electionVictory, 1987 United Kingdom general election]
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1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was a landslide parliamentary contest in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a dominant second term amid a divided opposition and the backdrop of the Falklands War.
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United Kingdom general election, 1979
The United Kingdom general election of 1979 was a pivotal national vote that brought Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party to power, ending years of Labour government and marking the start of a major shift in British economic and political policy.
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C.
United Kingdom general election, 1970
The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was a national parliamentary election in which Edward Heath’s Conservative Party unexpectedly defeated Harold Wilson’s governing Labour Party, leading to a change of government.
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D.
October 1974 United Kingdom general election
The October 1974 United Kingdom general election was a snap parliamentary election that resulted in a narrow Labour majority under Harold Wilson following a period of political instability and a hung parliament earlier that year.
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E.
1951 United Kingdom general election
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was a national parliamentary vote in which Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party returned to power, ending the post-war Labour government led by Clement Attlee.
- 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: 1987 United Kingdom general election Target entity description: The 1987 United Kingdom general election was a national parliamentary vote in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a third consecutive term in office.
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A.
1983 United Kingdom general election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was a landslide parliamentary contest in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a dominant second term amid a divided opposition and the backdrop of the Falklands War.
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B.
United Kingdom general election, 1979
The United Kingdom general election of 1979 was a pivotal national vote that brought Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party to power, ending years of Labour government and marking the start of a major shift in British economic and political policy.
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C.
United Kingdom general election, 1970
The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was a national parliamentary election in which Edward Heath’s Conservative Party unexpectedly defeated Harold Wilson’s governing Labour Party, leading to a change of government.
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D.
October 1974 United Kingdom general election
The October 1974 United Kingdom general election was a snap parliamentary election that resulted in a narrow Labour majority under Harold Wilson following a period of political instability and a hung parliament earlier that year.
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E.
1951 United Kingdom general election
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was a national parliamentary vote in which Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party returned to power, ending the post-war Labour government led by Clement Attlee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1987 United Kingdom general election Description of subject: The 1987 United Kingdom general election was a national parliamentary vote in which the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a third consecutive term in office.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Social Democratic Party (UK, 1981)
this entity surface form:
1987 United Kingdom general election in Wakefield
this entity surface form:
1987 United Kingdom general election in East Lothian