John B. Gordon
E283064
John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John B. Gordon canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2618281 — 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: John B. Gordon Context triple: [Lieutenant General (Confederate States Army), notableHolder, John B. Gordon]
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A.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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B.
William H. Park
William H. Park was an American physician and public health pioneer who played a key role in early cancer research and helped establish major health organizations in the United States.
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C.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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D.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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E.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
- 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: John B. Gordon Target entity description: John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
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A.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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B.
William H. Park
William H. Park was an American physician and public health pioneer who played a key role in early cancer research and helped establish major health organizations in the United States.
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C.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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D.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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E.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
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United States senator ⓘ governor ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1832-02-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Upson County, Georgia ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1904-01-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Miami, Florida
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linked to:
Miami
|
| education |
University of Georgia (did not graduate)
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linked to:
University of Georgia
|
| familyName | Gordon ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| honor | Fort Gordon named in his honor (later redesignated Fort Eisenhower) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
political leadership in Georgia during Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras
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service as a Confederate corps commander ⓘ |
| middleName | Brown ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Appomattox Campaign
ⓘ
Battle of Antietam ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ Overland Campaign ⓘ Siege of Petersburg ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ planter ⓘ |
| officeHeld |
Governor of Georgia
ⓘ
United States senator from Georgia ⓘ |
| party | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta, Georgia
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
|
| servedIn | Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| spouse | Fanny Haralson ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Georgia ⓘ |
| termEnd |
Governor of Georgia 1890
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U.S. Senate first term 1880 ⓘ U.S. Senate second term 1897 ⓘ |
| termStart |
Governor of Georgia 1886
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U.S. Senate first term 1873 ⓘ U.S. Senate second term 1891 ⓘ |
| wrote | Reminiscences of the Civil War ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: John B. Gordon Description of subject: John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.