Kirby Smith
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Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kirby Smith canonical | 2 |
| Edmund Kirby Smith | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051029 — 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: Kirby Smith Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Kirby Smith]
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A.
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler was a prominent American military officer who served as a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and later as a U.S. Army general in the Spanish–American War.
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B.
J. Lawton Collins
J. Lawton Collins was a prominent U.S. Army general of World War II and later Army Chief of Staff, noted for his aggressive leadership in the European theater.
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C.
General C. Robert Kehler
General C. Robert Kehler is a retired United States Air Force four-star general best known for his leadership roles in U.S. military space and strategic command organizations.
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D.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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E.
Creighton Abrams
Creighton Abrams was a highly respected U.S. Army general who commanded American forces in Vietnam and later served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- 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: Kirby Smith Target entity description: Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
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A.
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler was a prominent American military officer who served as a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and later as a U.S. Army general in the Spanish–American War.
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B.
J. Lawton Collins
J. Lawton Collins was a prominent U.S. Army general of World War II and later Army Chief of Staff, noted for his aggressive leadership in the European theater.
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C.
General C. Robert Kehler
General C. Robert Kehler is a retired United States Air Force four-star general best known for his leadership roles in U.S. military space and strategic command organizations.
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D.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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E.
Creighton Abrams
Creighton Abrams was a highly respected U.S. Army general who commanded American forces in Vietnam and later served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- 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: Kirby Smith Description of subject: Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kirby Smith