51st Regiment of Foot
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The 51st Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that served in numerous 18th- and 19th-century campaigns, including the Napoleonic Wars, before later becoming part of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 51st Regiment of Foot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4869847 — 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: 51st Regiment of Foot Context triple: [Sir John Moore, militaryUnit, 51st Regiment of Foot]
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A.
58th Regiment of Foot
The 58th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that served in numerous 18th- and 19th-century campaigns, including colonial wars and conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and First Boer Wars.
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B.
96th Regiment of Foot
The 96th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that later became part of the Manchester Regiment through amalgamation.
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C.
42nd Regiment of Foot
The 42nd Regiment of Foot, later known as the Black Watch, was a famed Scottish Highland infantry regiment of the British Army distinguished for its service in numerous 18th- and 19th-century conflicts.
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D.
6th Regiment of Foot
The 6th Regiment of Foot was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army that later became known as the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
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E.
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
The 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards was a historic British Army cavalry regiment with Irish connections that later became part of the Royal Dragoon Guards through amalgamation.
- 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: 51st Regiment of Foot Target entity description: The 51st Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that served in numerous 18th- and 19th-century campaigns, including the Napoleonic Wars, before later becoming part of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
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A.
58th Regiment of Foot
The 58th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that served in numerous 18th- and 19th-century campaigns, including colonial wars and conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and First Boer Wars.
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B.
96th Regiment of Foot
The 96th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that later became part of the Manchester Regiment through amalgamation.
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C.
42nd Regiment of Foot
The 42nd Regiment of Foot, later known as the Black Watch, was a famed Scottish Highland infantry regiment of the British Army distinguished for its service in numerous 18th- and 19th-century conflicts.
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D.
6th Regiment of Foot
The 6th Regiment of Foot was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army that later became known as the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
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E.
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
The 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards was a historic British Army cavalry regiment with Irish connections that later became part of the Royal Dragoon Guards through amalgamation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| engagement |
Napoleonic Wars
NERFINISHED
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Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| forceType | infantry ⓘ |
| garrison | Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCommand | English ⓘ |
| laterPartOf | King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRole | light infantry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service in 18th-century campaigns
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service in 19th-century campaigns ⓘ service in the Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| partOf | British Army infantry ⓘ |
| regimentalType | line infantry ⓘ |
| region |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| successor | King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
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: 51st Regiment of Foot Description of subject: The 51st Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment that served in numerous 18th- and 19th-century campaigns, including the Napoleonic Wars, before later becoming part of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.