William Moultrie
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American Revolutionary War general
American military officer
Continental Army general
human
politician
William Moultrie was an American Revolutionary War general from South Carolina, best known for his leadership in the defense of Charleston and for whom Fort Moultrie is named.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Moultrie canonical | 14 |
| General William Moultrie | 1 |
| William Moultrie – Patriot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1643446 — 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 Moultrie Context triple: [Siege of Charleston, commander, William Moultrie]
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A.
Edward Rutledge
Edward Rutledge was an American lawyer, statesman, and youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence who later served as governor of South Carolina.
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B.
Thomas Sumter
Thomas Sumter was an American Revolutionary War militia leader from South Carolina, nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock" for his fierce and persistent resistance against British forces.
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C.
Andrew Pickens
Andrew Pickens was a prominent South Carolina militia leader and frontiersman who became one of the most effective Patriot commanders in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Francis Marion
Francis Marion was a famed American Revolutionary War officer known as the "Swamp Fox" for his guerrilla tactics against British forces in the South.
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E.
Charles Pinckney
Charles Pinckney was an American Founding Father, influential South Carolina politician, and early advocate of a strong federal government who played a key role in shaping the United States Constitution.
- 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 Moultrie Target entity description: William Moultrie was an American Revolutionary War general from South Carolina, best known for his leadership in the defense of Charleston and for whom Fort Moultrie is named.
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A.
Edward Rutledge
Edward Rutledge was an American lawyer, statesman, and youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence who later served as governor of South Carolina.
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B.
Thomas Sumter
Thomas Sumter was an American Revolutionary War militia leader from South Carolina, nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock" for his fierce and persistent resistance against British forces.
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C.
Andrew Pickens
Andrew Pickens was a prominent South Carolina militia leader and frontiersman who became one of the most effective Patriot commanders in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Francis Marion
Francis Marion was a famed American Revolutionary War officer known as the "Swamp Fox" for his guerrilla tactics against British forces in the South.
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E.
Charles Pinckney
Charles Pinckney was an American Founding Father, influential South Carolina politician, and early advocate of a strong federal government who played a key role in shaping the United States Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Moultrie Description of subject: William Moultrie was an American Revolutionary War general from South Carolina, best known for his leadership in the defense of Charleston and for whom Fort Moultrie is named.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.