Robert Magaw
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Robert Magaw was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his leadership and eventual surrender of American forces at Fort Washington in 1776.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Magaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2756958 — 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: Robert Magaw Context triple: [Battle of Fort Washington, commander, Robert Magaw]
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A.
Richard Hudnut
Richard Hudnut was an American businessman and pioneer in the modern cosmetics and perfume industry, known for building one of the first major beauty product empires in the early 20th century.
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B.
Roy Webb
Roy Webb was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous RKO Pictures films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
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D.
Gilbert Roberts
Gilbert Roberts was a prominent British civil engineer renowned for designing major long-span bridges in the mid-20th century.
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E.
James W. McCord Jr.
James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
- 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: Robert Magaw Target entity description: Robert Magaw was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his leadership and eventual surrender of American forces at Fort Washington in 1776.
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A.
Richard Hudnut
Richard Hudnut was an American businessman and pioneer in the modern cosmetics and perfume industry, known for building one of the first major beauty product empires in the early 20th century.
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B.
Roy Webb
Roy Webb was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous RKO Pictures films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
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D.
Gilbert Roberts
Gilbert Roberts was a prominent British civil engineer renowned for designing major long-span bridges in the mid-20th century.
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E.
James W. McCord Jr.
James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War officer
ⓘ
Continental Army officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| capturedBy | British Army ⓘ |
| commanded | American garrison at Fort Washington ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| event | Battle of Fort Washington ⓘ |
| familyName | Magaw ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasRole | garrison commander at Fort Washington ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership at Fort Washington
ⓘ
surrender of American forces at Fort Washington in 1776 ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | defense of New York in 1776 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Continental Army officer corps
ⓘ
linked to:
Continental Army generals
|
| placeOfActivity |
Fort Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
New York ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Patriot cause ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo |
British forces at Fort Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Fort Washington
|
| yearOfEvent | 1776 ⓘ |
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: Robert Magaw Description of subject: Robert Magaw was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his leadership and eventual surrender of American forces at Fort Washington in 1776.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.