William J. Hardee
E166448
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William J. Hardee canonical | 32 |
| Confederate General William J. Hardee | 1 |
| William Joseph Hardee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051024 — 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: William J. Hardee Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, William J. Hardee]
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A.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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B.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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C.
Richard H. Anderson
Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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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.
Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in 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: William J. Hardee Target entity description: William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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A.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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B.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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C.
Richard H. Anderson
Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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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.
Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: William J. Hardee Description of subject: William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.