James Wolfe
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James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Wolfe canonical | 34 |
| General James Wolfe | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T42522 — 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: James Wolfe Context triple: [Seven Years' War, notableCommander, James Wolfe]
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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was an 18th-century French general best known for commanding French forces in North America during the French and Indian War, where he led key battles such as the defense of Quebec.
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Charles Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis was a British Army general and colonial administrator best known for his pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
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Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne was a bold and aggressive American Revolutionary War general nicknamed "Mad Anthony" for his daring battlefield leadership.
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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was a French nobleman and general whose leadership of French forces in North America was crucial to the allied victory over Britain, particularly at the Siege of Yorktown.
- 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: James Wolfe Target entity description: James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
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A.
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was an 18th-century French general best known for commanding French forces in North America during the French and Indian War, where he led key battles such as the defense of Quebec.
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B.
Charles Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis was a British Army general and colonial administrator best known for his pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
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C.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne was a bold and aggressive American Revolutionary War general nicknamed "Mad Anthony" for his daring battlefield leadership.
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E.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was a French nobleman and general whose leadership of French forces in North America was crucial to the allied victory over Britain, particularly at the Siege of Yorktown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: James Wolfe Description of subject: James Wolfe was an 18th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful assault on Quebec City in 1759, a pivotal victory in the Seven Years' War.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Wolfe
linked to: James Wolfe
subject linked to:
Plains of Abraham
subject linked to:
Wolfe and Montcalm Monument in Quebec City
subject linked to:
Wolfe and Montcalm Monument in Quebec City
linked to: James Wolfe
subject linked to:
The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West
subject linked to:
French and Indian War (as part of British America)
linked to: James Wolfe
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Allied forces
subject linked to:
Fourth Indian War (French and Indian War)
linked to: James Wolfe