17th Lancers
E178838
The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 17th Lancers canonical | 4 |
| 17th/21st Lancers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1485411 — 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: 17th Lancers Context triple: [Charge of the Light Brigade, militaryUnit, 17th Lancers]
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A.
11th Hussars
The 11th Hussars was a British Army light cavalry regiment renowned for its participation in the Crimean War and its role in the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
4th Queen’s Own Hussars
The 4th Queen’s Own Hussars was a historic British Army cavalry regiment that served in numerous 19th- and 20th-century campaigns before later being amalgamated into successor armoured units.
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C.
3rd King’s Own Hussars
The 3rd King’s Own Hussars was a British Army cavalry regiment with a long history of service in major campaigns before its eventual amalgamation into later hussar regiments.
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D.
7th Queen’s Own Hussars
The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars was a historic British Army cavalry regiment that served in numerous major campaigns before later being amalgamated into successor armoured units.
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E.
8th Hussars
The 8th Hussars were a British light cavalry regiment of the British Army, historically noted for their participation in the Crimean War and other 19th-century campaigns.
- 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: 17th Lancers Target entity description: The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
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A.
11th Hussars
The 11th Hussars was a British Army light cavalry regiment renowned for its participation in the Crimean War and its role in the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
4th Queen’s Own Hussars
The 4th Queen’s Own Hussars was a historic British Army cavalry regiment that served in numerous 19th- and 20th-century campaigns before later being amalgamated into successor armoured units.
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C.
3rd King’s Own Hussars
The 3rd King’s Own Hussars was a British Army cavalry regiment with a long history of service in major campaigns before its eventual amalgamation into later hussar regiments.
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D.
7th Queen’s Own Hussars
The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars was a historic British Army cavalry regiment that served in numerous major campaigns before later being amalgamated into successor armoured units.
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E.
8th Hussars
The 8th Hussars were a British light cavalry regiment of the British Army, historically noted for their participation in the Crimean War and other 19th-century campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: 17th Lancers Description of subject: The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
17th/21st Lancers
subject surface form:
William Henry Muir Lowe