Sterling Price
E154628
Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sterling Price canonical | 40 |
| Confederate Major General Sterling Price | 1 |
| Sterling Price – Missouri State Guard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051028 — 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: Sterling Price Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Sterling Price]
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A.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
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B.
Kirby Smith
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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C.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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D.
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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E.
Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston was a prominent 19th-century American military officer who served in multiple armies and became one of the highest-ranking and most respected generals of the Confederate States during the early years of the Civil 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: Sterling Price Target entity description: Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
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A.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
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B.
Kirby Smith
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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C.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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D.
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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E.
Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston was a prominent 19th-century American military officer who served in multiple armies and became one of the highest-ranking and most respected generals of the Confederate States during the early years of the Civil 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: Sterling Price Description of subject: Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Battle of Wilson’s Creek
subject linked to:
Battle of Wilson’s Creek
linked to: Sterling Price
subject linked to:
Oak Hills (Battle of Oak Hills)
linked to: Sterling Price