Charles Harrison
E164905
Charles Harrison was an American Revolutionary War officer who rose to prominence as a colonel commanding Continental artillery forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Harrison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T402330 — 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: Charles Harrison Context triple: [Continental Artillery, notableCommander, Charles Harrison]
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A.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
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B.
Henry Black
Henry Black was an American legal scholar best known for compiling influential legal reports and reference works, including the Black Reports.
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C.
Robert Barker
Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
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D.
James Marvyn
James Marvyn is a central fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," serving as a romantic lead whose presumed death and unexpected return drive much of the story’s emotional and moral conflict.
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E.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
- 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: Charles Harrison Target entity description: Charles Harrison was an American Revolutionary War officer who rose to prominence as a colonel commanding Continental artillery forces.
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A.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
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B.
Henry Black
Henry Black was an American legal scholar best known for compiling influential legal reports and reference works, including the Black Reports.
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C.
Robert Barker
Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
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D.
James Marvyn
James Marvyn is a central fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," serving as a romantic lead whose presumed death and unexpected return drive much of the story’s emotional and moral conflict.
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E.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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Continental Army officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| commanded | Continental artillery forces ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Harrison ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Continental artillery during the American Revolutionary War
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service as a colonel in the Continental Army ⓘ |
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: Charles Harrison Description of subject: Charles Harrison was an American Revolutionary War officer who rose to prominence as a colonel commanding Continental artillery forces.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.