Edward Pakenham
E152708
British Army officer
general
human
military commander in the Napoleonic Wars
person killed in action
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Pakenham canonical | 10 |
| Major General Sir Edward Pakenham | 1 |
| Sir Edward Pakenham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1294970 — 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: Edward Pakenham Context triple: [Battle of New Orleans, commander, Edward Pakenham]
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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.
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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.
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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D.
William Clive
William Clive is a notable individual bearing the surname Clive, recognized in historical and biographical records associated with the Clive family name.
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E.
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.
- 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: Edward Pakenham Target entity description: Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
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A.
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.
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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.
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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D.
William Clive
William Clive is a notable individual bearing the surname Clive, recognized in historical and biographical records associated with the Clive family name.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Edward Pakenham Description of subject: Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edward Pakenham
linked to: Edward Pakenham