Horace Smith-Dorrien
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Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Horace Smith-Dorrien canonical | 5 |
| Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien | 2 |
| Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien | 1 |
| Sir William F. D. Smith-Dorrien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1986503 — 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: Horace Smith-Dorrien Context triple: [Second Battle of Ypres, commander, Horace Smith-Dorrien]
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Frederick Stanley Maude
Frederick Stanley Maude was a British Army general in World War I, best known for leading successful operations in Mesopotamia, including the capture of Baghdad in 1917.
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Archibald Alexander Leach
Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
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Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts was a British Army officer and the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Boer War.
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Alfred Brumwell Thomas
Alfred Brumwell Thomas was a British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his grand civic buildings in the Edwardian Baroque style.
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Sir John Borlase Warren
Sir John Borlase Warren was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- 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: Horace Smith-Dorrien Target entity description: Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
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A.
Frederick Stanley Maude
Frederick Stanley Maude was a British Army general in World War I, best known for leading successful operations in Mesopotamia, including the capture of Baghdad in 1917.
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B.
Archibald Alexander Leach
Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts was a British Army officer and the only son of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Boer War.
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D.
Alfred Brumwell Thomas
Alfred Brumwell Thomas was a British architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his grand civic buildings in the Edwardian Baroque style.
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E.
Sir John Borlase Warren
Sir John Borlase Warren was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- 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: Horace Smith-Dorrien Description of subject: Horace Smith-Dorrien was a British Army general of the First World War, noted for his leadership of II Corps during the early battles on the Western Front and his earlier service in colonial campaigns.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces (United Kingdom)
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officeHolder
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Sir William F. D. Smith-Dorrien
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