Sir Evelyn Wood
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Sir Evelyn Wood was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient who held several high commands in the late 19th century, including leadership roles in colonial conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and Boer Wars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir Evelyn Wood canonical | 6 |
| Sir Evelyn Wood, 2nd Baronet Wood of Hatherley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T599051 — 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: Sir Evelyn Wood Context triple: [First Boer War, commandedBy, Sir Evelyn Wood]
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Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Sir George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman, scholar, and writer who held several high offices in government and was noted for his works on politics, history, and public finance.
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B.
Sir Matthew Holworthy
Sir Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial benefactions to educational institutions, including Harvard University.
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C.
Sir Kingsley Wood
Sir Kingsley Wood was a prominent British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the early years of Winston Churchill’s World War II government.
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D.
Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was a senior Royal Air Force officer who held high command positions between the World Wars and during the early years of the Second World War.
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E.
Sir George Warrender
Sir George Warrender was a 19th-century British politician and naval administrator who served in several government posts, including senior roles connected with the Royal Navy.
- 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: Sir Evelyn Wood Target entity description: Sir Evelyn Wood was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient who held several high commands in the late 19th century, including leadership roles in colonial conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and Boer Wars.
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A.
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Sir George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman, scholar, and writer who held several high offices in government and was noted for his works on politics, history, and public finance.
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B.
Sir Matthew Holworthy
Sir Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial benefactions to educational institutions, including Harvard University.
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C.
Sir Kingsley Wood
Sir Kingsley Wood was a prominent British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the early years of Winston Churchill’s World War II government.
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D.
Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was a senior Royal Air Force officer who held high command positions between the World Wars and during the early years of the Second World War.
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E.
Sir George Warrender
Sir George Warrender was a 19th-century British politician and naval administrator who served in several government posts, including senior roles connected with the Royal Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sir Evelyn Wood Description of subject: Sir Evelyn Wood was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient who held several high commands in the late 19th century, including leadership roles in colonial conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu and Boer Wars.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.