Lieutenant-General Robert Ford
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Lieutenant-General Robert Ford was a senior British Army officer in Northern Ireland, notably serving as the army's overall commander during key operations in the early 1970s, including the controversial period of the Troubles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant-General Robert Ford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5780824 — 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: Lieutenant-General Robert Ford Context triple: [Operation Motorman, commander, Lieutenant-General Robert Ford]
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A.
Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery
Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his armoured warfare leadership in Italy and later command of the British Eighth Army.
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B.
Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar
Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar was a senior Canadian Army officer in the Second World War who commanded First Canadian Army in Northwest Europe, playing a key role in the liberation of Western Europe.
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C.
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson was a British Army officer who led Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during the Second World War.
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D.
Major-General Roy Urquhart
Major-General Roy Urquhart was a British Army officer best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem in World War II.
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E.
Lieutenant General John Reith
Lieutenant General John Reith is a senior British Army officer best known for commanding UK forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq under Operation Telic.
- 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: Lieutenant-General Robert Ford Target entity description: Lieutenant-General Robert Ford was a senior British Army officer in Northern Ireland, notably serving as the army's overall commander during key operations in the early 1970s, including the controversial period of the Troubles.
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A.
Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery
Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his armoured warfare leadership in Italy and later command of the British Eighth Army.
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B.
Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar
Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar was a senior Canadian Army officer in the Second World War who commanded First Canadian Army in Northwest Europe, playing a key role in the liberation of Western Europe.
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C.
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson was a British Army officer who led Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during the Second World War.
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D.
Major-General Roy Urquhart
Major-General Roy Urquhart was a British Army officer best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Arnhem in World War II.
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E.
Lieutenant General John Reith
Lieutenant General John Reith is a senior British Army officer best known for commanding UK forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq under Operation Telic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| conflict | The Troubles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | British Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
counter-insurgency
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military leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasRole | senior British Army officer in Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Lieutenant-General ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant-General ⓘ |
| notableEvent | British Army operations during the Troubles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding British Army forces in Northern Ireland during the early 1970s
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role in controversial operations during the Troubles ⓘ |
| notableWork | British Army operations in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander Land Forces, Northern Ireland
NERFINISHED
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overall army commander in Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| residence | Northern Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Northern Ireland
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant-General Robert Ford Description of subject: Lieutenant-General Robert Ford was a senior British Army officer in Northern Ireland, notably serving as the army's overall commander during key operations in the early 1970s, including the controversial period of the Troubles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.