Sir John Moore
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Sir John Moore was a renowned British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for his reforms of light infantry and his death at the Battle of Corunna in 1809.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir John Moore canonical | 20 |
| General John Moore | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922975 — 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 John Moore Context triple: [Moore Barracks, namedAfter, Sir John Moore]
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A.
Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan was a British field marshal best known for commanding the British Army during the Crimean War, particularly at the Battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
James Wolfe
James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Sir John Colborne
Sir John Colborne was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Governor of both Upper and Lower Canada.
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E.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
- 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 John Moore Target entity description: Sir John Moore was a renowned British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for his reforms of light infantry and his death at the Battle of Corunna in 1809.
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A.
Lord Raglan
Lord Raglan was a British field marshal best known for commanding the British Army during the Crimean War, particularly at the Battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade.
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B.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
James Wolfe
James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Sir John Colborne
Sir John Colborne was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Governor of both Upper and Lower Canada.
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E.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst was an 18th-century British Army officer and commander-in-chief in North America during the Seven Years' War, later criticized for his role in policies toward Indigenous peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 John Moore Description of subject: Sir John Moore was a renowned British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for his reforms of light infantry and his death at the Battle of Corunna in 1809.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"
subject linked to:
poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"
subject linked to:
Napoleonic Wars engagement
linked to: Sir John Moore
subject linked to:
Thomas Graham