13th Light Dragoons
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The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 13th Light Dragoons canonical | 5 |
| 13th Regiment of Dragoons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T828577 — 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: 13th Light Dragoons Context triple: [Light Dragoons, predecessor, 13th Light Dragoons]
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11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored unit best known for its reconnaissance and cavalry operations, including service in Vietnam and the Cold War, and for its current role as the primary opposing force at the National Training Center.
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B.
15th Hussars
The 15th Hussars was a British light cavalry regiment of the British Army, active in the 18th and 19th centuries and known for its role in domestic crowd control and various military campaigns.
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2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry squadron of the U.S. Army known for its reconnaissance and armored warfare roles as part of the historic 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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D.
3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry squadron of the U.S. Army known for its reconnaissance and armored warfare roles as part of the historic "Blackhorse" regiment.
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E.
1st Hussars
The 1st Hussars is a Canadian armoured regiment renowned for its pivotal role in the D-Day landings during the Second World War.
- 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 Light Dragoons Target entity description: The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
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A.
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a historic U.S. Army armored unit best known for its reconnaissance and cavalry operations, including service in Vietnam and the Cold War, and for its current role as the primary opposing force at the National Training Center.
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B.
15th Hussars
The 15th Hussars was a British light cavalry regiment of the British Army, active in the 18th and 19th centuries and known for its role in domestic crowd control and various military campaigns.
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C.
2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry squadron of the U.S. Army known for its reconnaissance and armored warfare roles as part of the historic 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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D.
3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
The 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry squadron of the U.S. Army known for its reconnaissance and armored warfare roles as part of the historic "Blackhorse" regiment.
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E.
1st Hussars
The 1st Hussars is a Canadian armoured regiment renowned for its pivotal role in the D-Day landings during the Second World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Light Dragoons Description of subject: The 13th Light Dragoons was a British Army cavalry regiment best known for its role in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 13th Light Dragoons
subject linked to:
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Hodge
subject linked to:
Lieutenant-Colonel John Lawrenson