13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF
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The 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF was a Canadian infantry unit of Scottish Highland tradition that served on the Western Front during the First World War as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
All labels observed (2)
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| 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF canonical | 1 |
| 13th Battalion Volunteer Militia (Infantry), Canada | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8344282 — 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: 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF Context triple: [Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, perpetuates, 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF]
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16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF
The 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, noted for its Scottish heritage and distinguished combat service on the Western Front.
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48th Battalion (British Columbia), CEF
The 48th Battalion (British Columbia), CEF was an infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force raised in British Columbia for service in the First World War.
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67th Battalion (Western Scots), CEF
The 67th Battalion (Western Scots), CEF was an infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, raised in Western Canada with a strong Scottish identity and traditions.
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143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF
The 143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF was a First World War Canadian infantry unit composed primarily of shorter-statured volunteers from British Columbia, raised as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), CEF
The 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), CEF was an infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, raised from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada regiment and deployed for overseas service.
- 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: 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF Target entity description: The 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF was a Canadian infantry unit of Scottish Highland tradition that served on the Western Front during the First World War as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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A.
16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF
The 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, noted for its Scottish heritage and distinguished combat service on the Western Front.
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B.
48th Battalion (British Columbia), CEF
The 48th Battalion (British Columbia), CEF was an infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force raised in British Columbia for service in the First World War.
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C.
67th Battalion (Western Scots), CEF
The 67th Battalion (Western Scots), CEF was an infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, raised in Western Canada with a strong Scottish identity and traditions.
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D.
143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF
The 143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF was a First World War Canadian infantry unit composed primarily of shorter-statured volunteers from British Columbia, raised as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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E.
72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), CEF
The 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), CEF was an infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, raised from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada regiment and deployed for overseas service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
How these facts were elicited
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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: 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF Description of subject: The 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF was a Canadian infantry unit of Scottish Highland tradition that served on the Western Front during the First World War as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
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perpetuates
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13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF
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Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
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originalName
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13th Battalion Volunteer Militia (Infantry), Canada
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linked to: 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF