Major General David Burden
E430093
Major General David Burden is a senior British Army officer known for his leadership role within the UK’s Joint Helicopter Command.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major General David Burden canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4319585 — 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: Major General David Burden Context triple: [Joint Helicopter Command, notableCommander, Major General David Burden]
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A.
Major General Ralph C. Smith
Major General Ralph C. Smith was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding the 27th Infantry Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and for his controversial relief from command on Saipan.
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B.
Major General Julian C. Smith
Major General Julian C. Smith was a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for leading the 2nd Marine Division in the pivotal World War II amphibious assault on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.
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C.
Major General William H. Tunner
Major General William H. Tunner was a U.S. Air Force officer renowned as a pioneering airlift commander, best known for orchestrating large-scale air supply operations such as the Berlin Airlift.
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D.
Major-General Frederick Loomis
Major-General Frederick Loomis was a senior Canadian Army officer in the First World War, best known for leading Canadian troops with distinction in major Western Front offensives.
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E.
Major General John P. Lucas
Major General John P. Lucas was a U.S. Army officer in World War II best known for leading the VI Corps during the Allied landings at Anzio in the Italian Campaign.
- 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: Major General David Burden Target entity description: Major General David Burden is a senior British Army officer known for his leadership role within the UK’s Joint Helicopter Command.
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A.
Major General Ralph C. Smith
Major General Ralph C. Smith was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding the 27th Infantry Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II and for his controversial relief from command on Saipan.
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B.
Major General Julian C. Smith
Major General Julian C. Smith was a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for leading the 2nd Marine Division in the pivotal World War II amphibious assault on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.
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C.
Major General William H. Tunner
Major General William H. Tunner was a U.S. Air Force officer renowned as a pioneering airlift commander, best known for orchestrating large-scale air supply operations such as the Berlin Airlift.
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D.
Major-General Frederick Loomis
Major-General Frederick Loomis was a senior Canadian Army officer in the First World War, best known for leading Canadian troops with distinction in major Western Front offensives.
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E.
Major General John P. Lucas
Major General John P. Lucas was a U.S. Army officer in World War II best known for leading the VI Corps during the Allied landings at Anzio in the Italian Campaign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ military formation ⓘ |
| affiliation |
United Kingdom Joint Helicopter Command
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linked to:
Joint Helicopter Command
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| confersTitle | Major General David Burden ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | leadership role within the United Kingdom Joint Helicopter Command ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
British Armed Forces
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British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
leader within UK Joint Helicopter Command
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senior officer in the British Army ⓘ |
| service | British Army ⓘ |
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: Major General David Burden Description of subject: Major General David Burden is a senior British Army officer known for his leadership role within the UK’s Joint Helicopter Command.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Major General David Burden