73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
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The 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in Scotland and later incorporated into the Black Watch lineage through army reorganizations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6634239 — 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: 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot Context triple: [Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, predecessor, 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot]
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93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
The 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a distinguished Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army, famed for its steadfast “Thin Red Line” stand during the Crimean War.
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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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C.
Royal Highland Fusiliers
The Royal Highland Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and the Highland Light Infantry, with a distinguished history of service in conflicts around the world.
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D.
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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51st Regiment of Foot
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.
- 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: 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot Target entity description: The 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in Scotland and later incorporated into the Black Watch lineage through army reorganizations.
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A.
93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
The 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a distinguished Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army, famed for its steadfast “Thin Red Line” stand during the Crimean War.
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B.
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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C.
Royal Highland Fusiliers
The Royal Highland Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and the Highland Light Infantry, with a distinguished history of service in conflicts around the world.
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D.
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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E.
51st Regiment of Foot
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Perthshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| category |
Highland regiments
NERFINISHED
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Infantry regiments of the British Army ⓘ Military units and formations of Scotland ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| engagement |
Battle of Quatre Bras
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsular War campaigns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicComposition | Scottish ⓘ |
| garrisonOrDepot | Perth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedInto | Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCommand | English ⓘ |
| laterDesignatedAs | 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlanders) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedTo | 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTheatre |
Napoleonic Wars
NERFINISHED
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Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | lineage of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) ⓘ |
| raisedIn | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regimentalCounty | Perthshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regimentalType | Highland regiment ⓘ |
| role | infantry ⓘ |
| service |
European campaigns
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overseas imperial garrison duties ⓘ |
| successorUnit |
Royal Regiment of Scotland
NERFINISHED
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The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradition | Highland regiment traditions ⓘ |
| type | line infantry ⓘ |
| uniformFeature |
Highland dress
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kilt ⓘ |
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: 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot Description of subject: The 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in Scotland and later incorporated into the Black Watch lineage through army reorganizations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland
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predecessor
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73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
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