20th Regiment of Foot
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The 20th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, active from the late 17th century and later known as the Lancashire Fusiliers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 20th Regiment of Foot canonical | 3 |
| 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8912085 — 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: 20th Regiment of Foot Context triple: [Ladysmith Barracks, garrison, 20th Regiment of Foot]
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21st Regiment of Foot
The 21st Regiment of Foot, later known as the Royal Scots Fusiliers, was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army with a long record of service in major conflicts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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B.
24th Regiment of Foot
The 24th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, later known as the South Wales Borderers, famed for its heroic defense during the Anglo-Zulu War.
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42nd Regiment of Foot
The 42nd Regiment of Foot, later known as the Black Watch, was a famed Scottish Highland infantry regiment of the British Army distinguished for its service in numerous 18th- and 19th-century conflicts.
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D.
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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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: 20th Regiment of Foot Target entity description: The 20th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, active from the late 17th century and later known as the Lancashire Fusiliers.
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A.
21st Regiment of Foot
The 21st Regiment of Foot, later known as the Royal Scots Fusiliers, was a historic infantry regiment of the British Army with a long record of service in major conflicts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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B.
24th Regiment of Foot
The 24th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, later known as the South Wales Borderers, famed for its heroic defense during the Anglo-Zulu War.
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C.
42nd Regiment of Foot
The 42nd Regiment of Foot, later known as the Black Watch, was a famed Scottish Highland infantry regiment of the British Army distinguished for its service in numerous 18th- and 19th-century conflicts.
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D.
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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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 (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army regiment
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infantry regiment ⓘ line infantry regiment ⓘ |
| activeDuringCentury |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliedWith | other fusilier regiments of the British Army ⓘ |
| associatedCounty | Lancashire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | British Army ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| garrisonRegion | Lancashire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Lancashire Fusiliers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattleHonour |
Alma
NERFINISHED
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Gallipoli NERFINISHED ⓘ Inkerman NERFINISHED ⓘ Minden NERFINISHED ⓘ Relief of Ladysmith NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American War of Independence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crimean War NERFINISHED ⓘ First World War NERFINISHED ⓘ French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars ⓘ Second Boer War NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | infantry of the line ⓘ |
| precededBy | previous numbered infantry regiments of the line ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOfCommand | English ⓘ |
| raisedInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| regimentalTitleIncludes | Fusiliers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regimentalType | fusiliers ⓘ |
| serviceBranchRole | line infantry ⓘ |
| uniformFeature | fusilier-style headgear ⓘ |
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: 20th Regiment of Foot Description of subject: The 20th Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, active from the late 17th century and later known as the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot