Eleazar W. Ripley
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Eleazar W. Ripley was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Army general during the War of 1812, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleazar W. Ripley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2266109 — 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: Eleazar W. Ripley Context triple: [Battle of Lundy’s Lane, commander, Eleazar W. Ripley]
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A.
Charles A. Coffin
Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
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B.
William Platt
William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
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C.
Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton
Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Hodder & Stoughton.
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D.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
- 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: Eleazar W. Ripley Target entity description: Eleazar W. Ripley was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Army general during the War of 1812, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
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A.
Charles A. Coffin
Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
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B.
William Platt
William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
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C.
Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton
Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Hodder & Stoughton.
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D.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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United States Army general ⓘ War of 1812 veteran ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Ripley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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military affairs ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Eleazar ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
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major general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in several key battles of the War of 1812
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service as a U.S. Army general during the War of 1812 ⓘ service as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana ⓘ |
| notableWork |
military leadership at the Battle of Chippawa
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military leadership at the Battle of Lundy’s Lane ⓘ military leadership at the Battle of Niagara ⓘ military leadership at the defense of Fort Erie ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Democratic-Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
judge
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member of the Massachusetts Senate ⓘ member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
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: Eleazar W. Ripley Description of subject: Eleazar W. Ripley was an American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Army general during the War of 1812, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.