Robert Craufurd
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Robert Craufurd was a distinguished British Army officer of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the elite Light Division in the Peninsular Campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Craufurd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9400654 — 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: Robert Craufurd Context triple: [Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, commander, Robert Craufurd]
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A.
George Fergusson
George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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B.
Alexander Tilloch
Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
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C.
Joseph Brotherton
Joseph Brotherton is a cinematographer recognized as the founder of the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for film camerawork.
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D.
Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his leadership in North American naval operations during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle is a Scottish-born poet, writer, and abolitionist often regarded as the "father of South African poetry" for his influential early 19th-century literary and anti-slavery work.
- 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: Robert Craufurd Target entity description: Robert Craufurd was a distinguished British Army officer of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the elite Light Division in the Peninsular Campaign.
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A.
George Fergusson
George Fergusson is a British diplomat who has served as Governor of Bermuda and held various senior positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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B.
Alexander Tilloch
Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
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C.
Joseph Brotherton
Joseph Brotherton is a cinematographer recognized as the founder of the American Society of Cinematographers, a leading professional organization for film camerawork.
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D.
Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his leadership in North American naval operations during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle is a Scottish-born poet, writer, and abolitionist often regarded as the "father of South African poetry" for his influential early 19th-century literary and anti-slavery work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Ciudad Rodrigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | wounds received in battle ⓘ |
| conflict |
Napoleonic Wars
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Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1764-05-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1812-01-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Military Academy Woolwich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| knownFor |
rapid marches
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strict discipline ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Parliament of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| nickname | Black Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of the Light Division ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of the Light Division in the Peninsular War ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Busaco
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Talavera NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ciudad Rodrigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of Parliament for East Retford
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commander of the Light Division ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Charles Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Frances Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
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: Robert Craufurd Description of subject: Robert Craufurd was a distinguished British Army officer of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the elite Light Division in the Peninsular Campaign.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.