Benjamin Lincoln
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Benjamin Lincoln was an American Revolutionary War general who served in the Continental Army and later as the first United States Secretary at War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Lincoln canonical | 17 |
| Benjamin Lincoln commanded Continental Army forces | 1 |
| General Benjamin Lincoln | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1400791 — 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: Benjamin Lincoln Context triple: [Lincolnton, North Carolina, namedAfter, Benjamin Lincoln]
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Johann de Kalb
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
- 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: Benjamin Lincoln Target entity description: Benjamin Lincoln was an American Revolutionary War general who served in the Continental Army and later as the first United States Secretary at War.
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A.
Johann de Kalb
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Benjamin Lincoln Description of subject: Benjamin Lincoln was an American Revolutionary War general who served in the Continental Army and later as the first United States Secretary at War.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lincoln County
subject linked to:
Lincoln County
linked to: Benjamin Lincoln
linked to: Benjamin Lincoln