85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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The 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot was a British Army light infantry regiment that later became part of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry through amalgamation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8317760 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot Context triple: [King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, predecessor, 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot]
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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.
85th Regiment Royal Highlanders
The 85th Regiment Royal Highlanders was a historic Canadian Highland infantry unit that served as a predecessor to what became the Royal Montreal Regiment.
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C.
King's Royal Rifle Corps
The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a renowned infantry regiment of the British Army, distinguished for its light infantry tactics and extensive service in major conflicts from the 18th to the 20th century.
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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.
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: 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot Target entity description: The 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot was a British Army light infantry regiment that later became part of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry through amalgamation.
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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.
85th Regiment Royal Highlanders
The 85th Regiment Royal Highlanders was a historic Canadian Highland infantry unit that served as a predecessor to what became the Royal Montreal Regiment.
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C.
King's Royal Rifle Corps
The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a renowned infantry regiment of the British Army, distinguished for its light infantry tactics and extensive service in major conflicts from the 18th to the 20th century.
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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.
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 (15)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance | King of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
85th (King’s) Light Infantry
NERFINISHED
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85th Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| garrison | Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesignation | 85th Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryUnitType | light infantry ⓘ |
| namedAfter | the King of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a British light infantry regiment ⓘ |
| partOf | King’s Shropshire Light Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | light infantry ⓘ |
| successor | King’s Shropshire Light Infantry 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: 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot Description of subject: The 85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot was a British Army light infantry regiment that later became part of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry through amalgamation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
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formedByAmalgamationOf
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85th (King’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
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