John B. Magruder
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John B. Magruder was a U.S. Army officer who became a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, noted for his flamboyant style and his defensive operations in the Peninsula Campaign.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John B. Magruder canonical | 19 |
| John Bankhead Magruder | 2 |
| John B. Magruder – Confederacy | 1 |
| Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051016 — 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 B. Magruder Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, John B. Magruder]
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Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for directing the opening attack of the conflict and later commanding major Southern armies in the Eastern and Western theaters.
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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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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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D.
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
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Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder was a Republican political operative and Nixon administration official best known for his role in the Watergate scandal and involvement with the Committee to Re-elect the President.
- 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 B. Magruder Target entity description: John B. Magruder was a U.S. Army officer who became a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, noted for his flamboyant style and his defensive operations in the Peninsula Campaign.
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A.
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for directing the opening attack of the conflict and later commanding major Southern armies in the Eastern and Western theaters.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
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E.
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder was a Republican political operative and Nixon administration official best known for his role in the Watergate scandal and involvement with the Committee to Re-elect the President.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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 B. Magruder Description of subject: John B. Magruder was a U.S. Army officer who became a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, noted for his flamboyant style and his defensive operations in the Peninsula Campaign.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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