Colonel Smith
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Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colonel Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2299875 — 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: Colonel Smith Context triple: [First Anglo-Mysore War, commander, Colonel Smith]
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A.
Colonel Osborne
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
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B.
Colonel John Barnwell
Colonel John Barnwell was a colonial military officer from South Carolina known for leading early 18th-century campaigns against Native American groups, including during the Tuscarora War.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
Colonel Richard Cantwell
Colonel Richard Cantwell is the aging, war-scarred U.S. Army officer who serves as the reflective and melancholic protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s novel "Across the River and Into the Trees."
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E.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 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: Colonel Smith Target entity description: Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
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A.
Colonel Osborne
Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
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B.
Colonel John Barnwell
Colonel John Barnwell was a colonial military officer from South Carolina known for leading early 18th-century campaigns against Native American groups, including during the Tuscarora War.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
Colonel Richard Cantwell
Colonel Richard Cantwell is the aging, war-scarred U.S. Army officer who serves as the reflective and melancholic protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s novel "Across the River and Into the Trees."
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E.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance | British East India Company ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| conflict | First Anglo-Mysore War ⓘ |
| conflictType | Anglo-Mysore Wars ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading British forces against the Kingdom of Mysore
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service in southern India ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Mysore region
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South India ⓘ |
| opponent |
Hyder Ali
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Kingdom of Mysore ⓘ |
| participatedIn | First Anglo-Mysore War ⓘ |
| role |
leading role in First Anglo-Mysore War
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military commander ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
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: Colonel Smith Description of subject: Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.