Lewis Armistead
E104894
Lewis Armistead was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for leading a brigade during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Armistead canonical | 4 |
| Lewis Addison Armistead | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T881890 — 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: Lewis Armistead Context triple: [George Armistead, sibling, Lewis Armistead]
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A.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
John Pelham
John Pelham was a Confederate artillery officer in the American Civil War, renowned for his daring and effective command of horse artillery.
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C.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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D.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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E.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
- 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: Lewis Armistead Target entity description: Lewis Armistead was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for leading a brigade during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
John Pelham
John Pelham was a Confederate artillery officer in the American Civil War, renowned for his daring and effective command of horse artillery.
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C.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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D.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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E.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lewis Armistead Description of subject: Lewis Armistead was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for leading a brigade during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.