12th Royal Lancers
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The 12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army with a distinguished service record in major conflicts including both World Wars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 12th Lancers | 1 |
| 12th Royal Lancers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8526020 — 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: 12th Royal Lancers Context triple: [Bruce Shand, memberOf, 12th Royal Lancers]
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A.
17th Lancers
The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars
The 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars was a British Army cavalry regiment of the 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for its service in colonial campaigns and the First World War.
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C.
King’s Royal Hussars
The King’s Royal Hussars is a British Army cavalry regiment renowned for its armoured warfare role and distinguished service in modern conflicts.
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D.
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)
The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own) was a distinguished British Army cavalry regiment with a long history of service in major campaigns from the 18th to the 20th century.
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E.
4th Queen’s Own Hussars
The 4th Queen’s Own Hussars was a historic British Army cavalry regiment that served in numerous 19th- and 20th-century campaigns before later being amalgamated into successor armoured units.
- 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: 12th Royal Lancers Target entity description: The 12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army with a distinguished service record in major conflicts including both World Wars.
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A.
17th Lancers
The 17th Lancers was a British cavalry regiment famed for its dramatic and costly participation in the Crimean War’s Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars
The 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars was a British Army cavalry regiment of the 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for its service in colonial campaigns and the First World War.
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C.
King’s Royal Hussars
The King’s Royal Hussars is a British Army cavalry regiment renowned for its armoured warfare role and distinguished service in modern conflicts.
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D.
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)
The 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own) was a distinguished British Army cavalry regiment with a long history of service in major campaigns from the 18th to the 20th century.
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E.
4th Queen’s Own Hussars
The 4th Queen’s Own Hussars was a historic British Army cavalry regiment that served in numerous 19th- and 20th-century campaigns before later being amalgamated into successor armoured units.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cavalry regiment ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Kingdom of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| battleHonour |
Aisne 1914
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cambrai 1917 NERFINISHED ⓘ El Alamein NERFINISHED ⓘ France and Flanders 1914–1918 NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy 1944 ⓘ Marne 1914 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mons NERFINISHED ⓘ North Africa 1941–1943 NERFINISHED ⓘ North-West Europe 1940 ⓘ North-West Europe 1944–1945 NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsula War NERFINISHED ⓘ Somme 1916 NERFINISHED ⓘ South Africa 1899–1902 NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ypres 1914 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| convertedTo | armoured regiment ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateDisbanded | 1960 ⓘ |
| dateFormed | 1715 ⓘ |
| equipment |
armoured cars
ⓘ
horses ⓘ lances ⓘ |
| formedAs | Phineas Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| garrison |
Aldershot
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tidworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoraryTitle | The Prince of Wales's NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | 9th/12th Royal Lancers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCommander |
Phineas Bowles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sir John French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEngagement |
Battle of El Alamein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Retreat from Mons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
First World War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ Second Boer War NERFINISHED ⓘ Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousName |
12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
12th Regiment of Dragoons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raisedFor | Jacobite rising of 1715 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
armoured reconnaissance
ⓘ
cavalry ⓘ |
| tradition |
among first British cavalry units to mechanise before Second World War
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served as reconnaissance regiment for British Expeditionary Force in 1914 ⓘ |
| type | line cavalry ⓘ |
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: 12th Royal Lancers Description of subject: The 12th Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army with a distinguished service record in major conflicts including both World Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Richard McCreery
this entity surface form:
12th Lancers