53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot
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The 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment raised in the 18th century that served in numerous campaigns across the British Empire before later being amalgamated into the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8317759 — 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: 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot Context triple: [King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, predecessor, 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot]
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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.
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52nd Regiment of Foot
The 52nd Regiment of Foot was a distinguished light infantry regiment of the British Army, renowned for its role in the Napoleonic Wars and its association with Sir John Moore’s reforms.
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C.
73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
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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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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E.
29th Regiment of Foot
The 29th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment active during the 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for its service in North America and involvement in the events leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot Target entity description: The 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment raised in the 18th century that served in numerous campaigns across the British Empire before later being amalgamated into the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
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A.
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.
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B.
52nd Regiment of Foot
The 52nd Regiment of Foot was a distinguished light infantry regiment of the British Army, renowned for its role in the Napoleonic Wars and its association with Sir John Moore’s reforms.
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C.
73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
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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D.
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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E.
29th Regiment of Foot
The 29th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment active during the 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for its service in North America and involvement in the events leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales’s) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amalgamatedInto | King's Shropshire Light Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amalgamatedWith | 85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amalgamationScheme | Childers Reforms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| amalgamationYear | 1881 ⓘ |
| associatedCounty | Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleHonour |
Aliwal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bunker Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucknow NERFINISHED ⓘ Mysore NERFINISHED ⓘ Nive NERFINISHED ⓘ Nivelle NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Sobraon NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countyTitleGranted | Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countyTitleYear | 1782 ⓘ |
| disbandedOrCeasedToExist | 1881 ⓘ |
| garrison | Shrewsbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryUnitType | line infantry ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Sir John Kempt
NERFINISHED
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Sir Robert Abercromby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | British Army infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raisedAs | 55th Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raisedInYear | 1755 ⓘ |
| renumberedAs | 53rd Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renumberingYear | 1756 ⓘ |
| servedInConflict |
American Revolutionary War
NERFINISHED
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First Anglo-Burmese War NERFINISHED ⓘ French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Rebellion of 1857 NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Anglo-Sikh War NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedInRegion |
Burma
NERFINISHED
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ India NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnderMonarch |
George III
NERFINISHED
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Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uniformFacingsColour | black ⓘ |
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: 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot Description of subject: The 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment raised in the 18th century that served in numerous campaigns across the British Empire before later being amalgamated into the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
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