Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings
E191233
British Army officer
Governor-General of India
colonial administrator
human
nobleman
peer of the United Kingdom
Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings was a British soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India and played a key role in expanding British control in the subcontinent in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Francis Rawdon-Hastings | 6 |
| Francis Rawdon | 4 |
| Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings canonical | 1 |
| Lord Rawdon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1673542 — 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: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings Context triple: [Anglo-Nepalese War, commander, Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings]
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A.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
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B.
Edward Pakenham
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
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C.
Henry Clinton
Henry Clinton was a British Army general who served as the commander-in-chief of British forces in North America for much of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan was a British field marshal best known for commanding the British Army during the Crimean War, particularly at the Battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
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E.
Viscount Monck
Viscount Monck was a 19th-century British statesman who oversaw Canadian Confederation and became the first Governor General of the Dominion of Canada.
- 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: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings Target entity description: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings was a British soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India and played a key role in expanding British control in the subcontinent in the early 19th century.
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A.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
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B.
Edward Pakenham
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
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C.
Henry Clinton
Henry Clinton was a British Army general who served as the commander-in-chief of British forces in North America for much of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan was a British field marshal best known for commanding the British Army during the Crimean War, particularly at the Battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
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E.
Viscount Monck
Viscount Monck was a 19th-century British statesman who oversaw Canadian Confederation and became the first Governor General of the Dominion of Canada.
- 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: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings Description of subject: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings was a British soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India and played a key role in expanding British control in the subcontinent in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon
this entity surface form:
Lord Rawdon
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
this entity surface form:
Francis Rawdon