Henry Dodge
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Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Dodge canonical | 15 |
| General John Tipton | 1 |
| Henry Dodge (second term) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T776289 — 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: Henry Dodge Context triple: [Winnebago War, commandedBy, Henry Dodge]
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A.
Charles F. Brannan
Charles F. Brannan was a mid-20th-century U.S. Secretary of Agriculture known for advocating progressive farm policies and New Deal–style agricultural reforms.
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B.
Grenville M. Dodge
Grenville M. Dodge was a prominent Union Army general and influential railroad engineer and executive who played a key role in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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C.
John Davis
John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
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D.
James Gadsden
James Gadsden was a 19th-century American diplomat and soldier best known for negotiating the Gadsden Purchase, which secured land from Mexico for the United States.
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E.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
- 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: Henry Dodge Target entity description: Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
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A.
Charles F. Brannan
Charles F. Brannan was a mid-20th-century U.S. Secretary of Agriculture known for advocating progressive farm policies and New Deal–style agricultural reforms.
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B.
Grenville M. Dodge
Grenville M. Dodge was a prominent Union Army general and influential railroad engineer and executive who played a key role in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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C.
John Davis
John Davis was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
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D.
James Gadsden
James Gadsden was a 19th-century American diplomat and soldier best known for negotiating the Gadsden Purchase, which secured land from Mexico for the United States.
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E.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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United States senator ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ territorial governor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1782-10-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Vincennes, Indiana Territory
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linked to:
Vincennes, Indiana
|
| burialPlace | Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa ⓘ |
| child | Augustus C. Dodge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1867-06-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Burlington, Iowa ⓘ |
| electedIn | first U.S. Senate elections for the state of Wisconsin ⓘ |
| endTime (Governor of Wisconsin Territory) | 1841 ⓘ |
| endTime (second term as Governor of Wisconsin Territory) | 1848 ⓘ |
| endTime (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin) | 1857 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Dodge ⓘ |
| father | Israel Dodge ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| honor |
Dodge County, Wisconsin named after him
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Dodgeville, Wisconsin named after him ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| mother | Nancy Hunter Dodge ⓘ |
| name | Henry Dodge ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early political leadership in Wisconsin Territory
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leading frontier forces in early 19th-century American conflicts ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts ⓘ |
| occupation |
frontiersman
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Black Hawk War
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War of 1812 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Wisconsin Territory
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United States Senator from Wisconsin ⓘ marshal of Missouri Territory ⓘ member of the Legislative Council of Missouri Territory ⓘ sheriff of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri ⓘ |
| representedIn | United States Senate ⓘ |
| residence |
Missouri Territory
ⓘ
Wisconsin Territory ⓘ |
| startTime (Governor of Wisconsin Territory) | 1836 ⓘ |
| startTime (second term as Governor of Wisconsin Territory) | 1845 ⓘ |
| startTime (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin) | 1848 ⓘ |
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: Henry Dodge Description of subject: Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Henry Dodge
linked to: Henry Dodge