Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière
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Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière is a retired British Army general best known for commanding UK land forces during the 1991 Gulf War and for his distinguished career in the Special Air Service (SAS).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6094853 — 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: Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière Context triple: [Peter de la Billière, fullName, Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière]
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A.
Sir Peter Birkett
Sir Peter Birkett is a British educational leader and entrepreneur known for his work in transforming and improving schools and colleges in the UK.
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B.
Sir Peter Burt
Sir Peter Burt is a Scottish banker and businessman best known for serving as chief executive of the Bank of Scotland and later deputy chairman of HBOS.
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C.
Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton was a prominent early 19th-century British clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and played a key ceremonial role in the reign of George IV.
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D.
Sir William Davidson Niven
Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for editing and promoting the works of James Clerk Maxwell and for his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Sir William Martin
Sir William Martin was a 19th-century British-born jurist who became a foundational figure in New Zealand’s legal system and an influential advocate for Māori rights.
- 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: Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière Target entity description: Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière is a retired British Army general best known for commanding UK land forces during the 1991 Gulf War and for his distinguished career in the Special Air Service (SAS).
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A.
Sir Peter Birkett
Sir Peter Birkett is a British educational leader and entrepreneur known for his work in transforming and improving schools and colleges in the UK.
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B.
Sir Peter Burt
Sir Peter Burt is a Scottish banker and businessman best known for serving as chief executive of the Bank of Scotland and later deputy chairman of HBOS.
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C.
Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton was a prominent early 19th-century British clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and played a key ceremonial role in the reign of George IV.
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D.
Sir William Davidson Niven
Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for editing and promoting the works of James Clerk Maxwell and for his contributions to mathematical education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Sir William Martin
Sir William Martin was a 19th-century British-born jurist who became a foundational figure in New Zealand’s legal system and an influential advocate for Māori rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| award |
Distinguished Service Order
NERFINISHED
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ⓘ Legion of Merit NERFINISHED ⓘ Military Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of Oman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1934-04-29 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Brighton, Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| command |
22nd Special Air Service Regiment
NERFINISHED
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British Forces Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ Director Special Air Service ⓘ United Kingdom Special Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Aden Emergency
NERFINISHED
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Dhofar Rebellion NERFINISHED ⓘ Gulf War ⓘ Indonesian Confrontation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| education |
Harrow School
NERFINISHED
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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | military history ⓘ |
| hasSpecialization |
counter-insurgency
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special forces operations ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| name | Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding UK land forces during the 1991 Gulf War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Looking for Trouble
NERFINISHED
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Supreme Courage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces (Gulf)
NERFINISHED
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Director SAS ⓘ General Officer Commanding Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | General ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | 395539 ⓘ |
| serviceStartYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| unit |
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Special Air Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière Description of subject: Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière is a retired British Army general best known for commanding UK land forces during the 1991 Gulf War and for his distinguished career in the Special Air Service (SAS).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billière
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fullName
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Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière
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subject surface form:
Peter de la Billière