Zeilin
E178853
Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zeilin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1495677 — 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: Zeilin Context triple: [Jacob Zeilin, familyName, Zeilin]
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A.
Loralai
Loralai is a town and district in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, known historically as a regional administrative and trade center.
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B.
Zimeysa
Zimeysa is a railway station in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, serving local and regional train services on the Geneva–La Plaine line.
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C.
Ranyah
Ranyah is a town and governorate in western Saudi Arabia known for its desert landscape and agricultural activities, particularly date farming.
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D.
Aldan
Aldan is a mining town in Russia’s Sakha Republic known for its significant gold deposits and remote Siberian location.
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E.
Kiloran
Kiloran is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Colonsay, known for its scenic bay and sandy beach.
- 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: Zeilin Target entity description: Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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A.
Loralai
Loralai is a town and district in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, known historically as a regional administrative and trade center.
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B.
Zimeysa
Zimeysa is a railway station in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, serving local and regional train services on the Geneva–La Plaine line.
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C.
Ranyah
Ranyah is a town and governorate in western Saudi Arabia known for its desert landscape and agricultural activities, particularly date farming.
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D.
Aldan
Aldan is a mining town in Russia’s Sakha Republic known for its significant gold deposits and remote Siberian location.
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E.
Kiloran
Kiloran is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Colonsay, known for its scenic bay and sandy beach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| appointedAsFirstUSMCBrigadierGeneral | 1864 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1806-07-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1880-11-18 ⓘ |
| familyName | Zeilin ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Jacob Zeilin ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first United States Marine Corps officer promoted to brigadier general ⓘ |
| occupation | United States Marine Corps officer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C., United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C.
|
| positionHeld | Commandant of the Marine Corps ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1831 ⓘ |
| serviceRetirementYear | 1874 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Zeilin Description of subject: Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Zeilin