Earl Cornwallis
E152583
Earl Cornwallis is the noble title held by Charles Cornwallis, the British general best known for his role in the American Revolutionary War and his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earl Cornwallis canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T584710 — 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: Earl Cornwallis Context triple: [Charles Cornwallis, honorificTitle, Earl Cornwallis]
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A.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
Henry Havelock
Henry Havelock was a British general noted for his leadership during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, particularly in the relief of Lucknow.
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D.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
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E.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
- 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: Earl Cornwallis Target entity description: Earl Cornwallis is the noble title held by Charles Cornwallis, the British general best known for his role in the American Revolutionary War and his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
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A.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
Henry Havelock
Henry Havelock was a British general noted for his leadership during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, particularly in the relief of Lucknow.
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D.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
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E.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
- 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: Earl Cornwallis Description of subject: Earl Cornwallis is the noble title held by Charles Cornwallis, the British general best known for his role in the American Revolutionary War and his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1st Marquess Cornwallis
subject linked to:
Earl Cornwallis
subject linked to:
Viscount Brome