Benjamin Tallmadge
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Benjamin Tallmadge was an American Revolutionary War officer and spymaster who led the Culper Spy Ring under George Washington.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Tallmadge canonical | 11 |
| Benjamin Tallmadge Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651453 — 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: Benjamin Tallmadge Context triple: [Turn: Washington's Spies, mainCharacter, Benjamin Tallmadge]
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A.
William Gage
William Gage is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including English politicians and nobility active between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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B.
James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
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C.
Thomas Preston
Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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D.
Timothy Pickering
Timothy Pickering was an American Revolutionary War officer and later statesman who served as U.S. Postmaster General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State under Presidents Washington and Adams.
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E.
John Laurens
John Laurens was an American Revolutionary War officer and abolitionist known for his close association with George Washington and his efforts to recruit enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
- 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: Benjamin Tallmadge Target entity description: Benjamin Tallmadge was an American Revolutionary War officer and spymaster who led the Culper Spy Ring under George Washington.
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A.
William Gage
William Gage is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including English politicians and nobility active between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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B.
James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
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C.
Thomas Preston
Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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D.
Timothy Pickering
Timothy Pickering was an American Revolutionary War officer and later statesman who served as U.S. Postmaster General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State under Presidents Washington and Adams.
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E.
John Laurens
John Laurens was an American Revolutionary War officer and abolitionist known for his close association with George Washington and his efforts to recruit enslaved people to fight for their freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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Continental Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ spymaster ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Congress
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States (post-independence)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1754-02-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1835-03-07 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Revolutionary War memoirs
ⓘ
United States historical records ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale College ⓘ |
| employer | Continental Army ⓘ |
| familyName |
Tallmadge
ⓘ
linked to:
Tallmadge, Ohio
|
| father |
Benjamin Tallmadge Sr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Benjamin Tallmadge
|
| givenName | Benjamin ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Culper Spy Ring (as his intelligence network)
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linked to:
Culper Ring
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
lieutenant colonel
ⓘ
major ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | 2nd Continental Light Dragoons ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing codes and ciphers for Revolutionary War intelligence
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directing the Culper Spy Ring ⓘ serving as George Washington’s chief intelligence officer in the New York region ⓘ |
| notableStudent | members of the Culper Spy Ring ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tallmadge’s Memoir (Revolutionary War memoirs)
ⓘ
leadership of the Culper Spy Ring ⓘ organization of American military intelligence operations on Long Island ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
British America
ⓘ
Province of New York ⓘ Setauket ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Litchfield, Connecticut
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linked to:
Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut
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bank president in Litchfield, Connecticut ⓘ postmaster of Litchfield, Connecticut ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
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linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| residence |
Litchfield, Connecticut
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linked to:
Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Floyd ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Litchfield, Connecticut
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linked to:
Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Long Island ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
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: Benjamin Tallmadge Description of subject: Benjamin Tallmadge was an American Revolutionary War officer and spymaster who led the Culper Spy Ring under George Washington.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Benjamin Tallmadge