de la Billière
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De la Billière is the surname of Sir Peter de la Billière, a prominent British Army general best known for commanding UK forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| de la Billière canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6094855 — 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: de la Billière Context triple: [Peter de la Billière, familyName, de la Billière]
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A.
Boule
Boule was the citizen council of Classical Athens responsible for preparing legislation and overseeing the day-to-day administration of the city-state’s government.
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B.
Grand Slam Pool
Grand Slam Pool is a baseball-themed outdoor swimming pool area at Disney's All-Star Sports Resort in Walt Disney World.
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C.
Nine Ball
Nine Ball is a savvy, dreadlocked hacker played by Rihanna in the heist film "Ocean's 8."
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D.
Seven Billiard Tables
Seven Billiard Tables is a Spanish drama film in which Maribel Verdú delivers a critically acclaimed performance in a story centered on family, loss, and a struggling billiard hall.
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E.
Bowling
Bowling is a village on the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, known for its historic harbour and role as a transport hub at the western end of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
- 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: de la Billière Target entity description: De la Billière is the surname of Sir Peter de la Billière, a prominent British Army general best known for commanding UK forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
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A.
Boule
Boule was the citizen council of Classical Athens responsible for preparing legislation and overseeing the day-to-day administration of the city-state’s government.
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B.
Grand Slam Pool
Grand Slam Pool is a baseball-themed outdoor swimming pool area at Disney's All-Star Sports Resort in Walt Disney World.
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C.
Nine Ball
Nine Ball is a savvy, dreadlocked hacker played by Rihanna in the heist film "Ocean's 8."
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D.
Seven Billiard Tables
Seven Billiard Tables is a Spanish drama film in which Maribel Verdú delivers a critically acclaimed performance in a story centered on family, loss, and a struggling billiard hall.
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E.
Bowling
Bowling is a village on the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, known for its historic harbour and role as a transport hub at the western end of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| conflict | Gulf War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | de la Billière ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasSurname | de la Billière ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| nameInNativeLanguage | Peter de la Billière ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding United Kingdom forces during the 1991 Gulf War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of British forces in the Gulf War ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | Peter de la Billière ⓘ |
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: de la Billière Description of subject: De la Billière is the surname of Sir Peter de la Billière, a prominent British Army general best known for commanding UK forces during the 1991 Gulf War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Billière
subject linked to:
de la Billière
subject linked to:
de la Billière