Alexander Scammell
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Alexander Scammell was an American Revolutionary War officer noted for his close service under George Washington and his leadership in several key campaigns before his death at the Siege of Yorktown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Scammell canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2209975 — 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: Alexander Scammell Context triple: [Adjutant General of the Continental Army, positionHeldBy, Alexander Scammell]
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A.
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers series.
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B.
Gavin Millar
Gavin Millar was a Scottish film and television director, critic, and producer known for his work on British dramas and literary adaptations.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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E.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
- 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: Alexander Scammell Target entity description: Alexander Scammell was an American Revolutionary War officer noted for his close service under George Washington and his leadership in several key campaigns before his death at the Siege of Yorktown.
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A.
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers series.
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B.
Gavin Millar
Gavin Millar was a Scottish film and television director, critic, and producer known for his work on British dramas and literary adaptations.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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E.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Alexander Scammell Description of subject: Alexander Scammell was an American Revolutionary War officer noted for his close service under George Washington and his leadership in several key campaigns before his death at the Siege of Yorktown.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.