Johann de Kalb
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Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johann de Kalb canonical | 12 |
| Johann De Kalb | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1202244 — 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: Johann de Kalb Context triple: [DeKalb County, namedAfter, Johann de Kalb]
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A.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
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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.
William Howe
William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
George Armistead
George Armistead was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, where the American defense inspired the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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E.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan was a famed American Revolutionary War general and frontiersman best known for his leadership of riflemen and decisive victory at the Battle of Cowpens.
- 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: Johann de Kalb Target entity description: Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
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A.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
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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.
William Howe
William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
George Armistead
George Armistead was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, where the American defense inspired the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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E.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan was a famed American Revolutionary War general and frontiersman best known for his leadership of riflemen and decisive victory at the Battle of Cowpens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Johann de Kalb Description of subject: Johann de Kalb was a German-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and became a patriot hero after dying from wounds sustained at the Battle of Camden.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Johann de Kalb
subject linked to:
DeKalb County
subject linked to:
city of DeKalb, Illinois
linked to: Johann de Kalb
subject linked to:
De Kalb, Texas, United States