Major-General Patrick Cordingley
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Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major-General Patrick Cordingley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6094835 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major-General Patrick Cordingley Context triple: [1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom), commander, Major-General Patrick Cordingley]
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A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
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B.
Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse was a British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of armoured and Indian Army formations in the North African and Middle Eastern campaigns.
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C.
Major-General George Erskine
Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
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D.
Major-General Charles Foulkes
Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
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E.
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair was a senior British Army officer and decorated World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
- 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 Patrick Cordingley Target entity description: Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
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A.
Major-General Douglas Graham
Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
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B.
Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse
Major-General Noel Beresford-Peirse was a British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of armoured and Indian Army formations in the North African and Middle Eastern campaigns.
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C.
Major-General George Erskine
Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
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D.
Major-General Charles Foulkes
Major-General Charles Foulkes was a senior Canadian Army officer of the Second World War, best known for his leadership in Northwest Europe and for accepting the German surrender in the Netherlands in May 1945.
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E.
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair was a senior British Army officer and decorated World War II commander in the Guards, noted for leading armoured forces in Northwest Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| conflict | Gulf War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | late 20th century military history ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
armoured warfare
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military command ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Major-General ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | 1st Armoured Division ⓘ |
| notableEvent | ground offensive phase of the 1991 Gulf War ⓘ |
| notableFor | command of 1st Armoured Division in the 1991 Gulf War ⓘ |
| notableWork | public commentary on the Gulf War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld | General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division ⓘ |
| rank | Major-General ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | British Army officer service number (specific value not known) ⓘ |
| war |
1991 Gulf War
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linked to:
Gulf War
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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 Patrick Cordingley Description of subject: Major-General Patrick Cordingley is a retired British Army officer best known for commanding the 1st Armoured Division during the 1991 Gulf War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.