John Bell Hood
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John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Bell Hood canonical | 28 |
| John Bell Hood (Confederate general) | 1 |
| John Bell Hood commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee | 1 |
| Major General John Bell Hood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1050997 — 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: John Bell Hood Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, notableCommander, John Bell Hood]
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A.
Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
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B.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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C.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was a renowned Confederate general celebrated for his tactical brilliance and pivotal battlefield leadership during the American Civil War.
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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.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.
- 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: John Bell Hood Target entity description: John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
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A.
Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
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B.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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C.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was a renowned Confederate general celebrated for his tactical brilliance and pivotal battlefield leadership during the American Civil War.
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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.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.
- 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: John Bell Hood Description of subject: John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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fighting at Devil’s Den
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Battle of Peachtree Creek
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John Bell Hood commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee
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