Philip Kearny
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Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philip Kearny canonical | 9 |
| Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny | 1 |
| Major General Philip Kearny | 1 |
| Philip Kearny Sr. | 1 |
| Union General Philip Kearny | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2690466 — 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: Philip Kearny Context triple: [Stephen W. Kearny, relative, Philip Kearny]
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Union Army officer, college professor, and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his heroic defense of the Union flank at Gettysburg and later service as governor of Maine.
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George Armistead
George Armistead was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, where the American defense inspired the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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John Schofield
John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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D.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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E.
Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War who later became Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars and Reconstruction era.
- 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: Philip Kearny Target entity description: Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
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A.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Union Army officer, college professor, and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his heroic defense of the Union flank at Gettysburg and later service as governor of Maine.
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B.
George Armistead
George Armistead was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, where the American defense inspired the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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C.
John Schofield
John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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D.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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E.
Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War who later became Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars and Reconstruction era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Philip Kearny Description of subject: Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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