Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
E29753
British Army officer
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
duke
human
peer of the United Kingdom
statesman
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British military leader and statesman best known for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and later serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T231970 — 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: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Context triple: [Napoleonic Wars, significantCommander, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent English general and statesman renowned for his decisive victories against France in the early 18th century and for shaping European power politics.
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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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C.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal renowned for his aggressive leadership and decisive role alongside Wellington in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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D.
James Wolfe
James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
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E.
Alan Brooke
Alan Brooke was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II and was one of the principal architects of Allied strategy.
- 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: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Target entity description: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British military leader and statesman best known for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and later serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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A.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, was a prominent English general and statesman renowned for his decisive victories against France in the early 18th century and for shaping European power politics.
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B.
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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C.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal renowned for his aggressive leadership and decisive role alongside Wellington in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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D.
James Wolfe
James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
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E.
Alan Brooke
Alan Brooke was a senior British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II and was one of the principal architects of Allied strategy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Description of subject: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British military leader and statesman best known for defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and later serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (170)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wellesley
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wellesley
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wellesley
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
subject surface form:
Georg Baring
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wellesley
this entity surface form:
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
this entity surface form:
Duke of Wellington
subject surface form:
Wellington Place (Belfast)