Casimir Pulaski
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Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman and military commander renowned as the “father of the American cavalry” for his pivotal role in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Casimir Pulaski canonical | 44 |
| Kazimierz Pułaski | 9 |
| General Casimir Pulaski | 4 |
| Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski of the Continental Army | 1 |
| Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski | 1 |
| Pułaski | 1 |
| Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T988549 — 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: Casimir Pulaski Context triple: [Battle of Brandywine, notableParticipant, Casimir Pulaski]
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Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian military leader and national hero who fought in both the American Revolutionary War and led the Kościuszko Uprising against foreign domination of Poland.
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Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne was a bold and aggressive American Revolutionary War general nicknamed "Mad Anthony" for his daring battlefield leadership.
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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.
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Sydney de Kantzow
Sydney de Kantzow was an Australian aviator and businessman best known for co-founding the Hong Kong–based airline Cathay Pacific in the mid-20th century.
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Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry was a 17th-century Prince of Orange and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, noted for his military leadership and role in strengthening the Dutch state during the Eighty Years' 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: Casimir Pulaski Target entity description: Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman and military commander renowned as the “father of the American cavalry” for his pivotal role in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian military leader and national hero who fought in both the American Revolutionary War and led the Kościuszko Uprising against foreign domination of Poland.
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B.
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne was a bold and aggressive American Revolutionary War general nicknamed "Mad Anthony" for his daring battlefield leadership.
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C.
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.
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D.
Sydney de Kantzow
Sydney de Kantzow was an Australian aviator and businessman best known for co-founding the Hong Kong–based airline Cathay Pacific in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry was a 17th-century Prince of Orange and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, noted for his military leadership and role in strengthening the Dutch state during the Eighty Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Casimir Pulaski Description of subject: Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman and military commander renowned as the “father of the American cavalry” for his pivotal role in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Pulaski County
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General Pulaski statue in Washington, D.C.
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honors
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Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski of the Continental Army
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Monterey Square, Savannah
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Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom
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Kazimierz Pułaski
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Pulaski
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Pulaski County