David Petraeus
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former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
four-star general
human
retired U.S. Army general
David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former CIA Director best known for leading coalition forces during the Iraq War and shaping modern counterinsurgency strategy.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Petraeus canonical | 8 |
| General David H. Petraeus | 2 |
| Petraeus | 2 |
| David H. Petraeus | 1 |
| David Howell Petraeus | 1 |
| General David Petraeus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T196294 — 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: David Petraeus Context triple: [Iraq War, commander, David Petraeus]
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A.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte is an American diplomat and government official who has served in numerous high-level roles, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Iraq.
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B.
Frank Wisner
Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
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C.
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served in the Trump administration, including as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security.
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D.
William Colby
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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E.
Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Colin Powell was a four-star U.S. Army general and statesman who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later as Secretary of State, playing a central leadership role in U.S. military and foreign policy at the end of the 20th century.
- 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: David Petraeus Target entity description: David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former CIA Director best known for leading coalition forces during the Iraq War and shaping modern counterinsurgency strategy.
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A.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte is an American diplomat and government official who has served in numerous high-level roles, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Iraq.
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B.
Frank Wisner
Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
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C.
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served in the Trump administration, including as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security.
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D.
William Colby
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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E.
Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Colin Powell was a four-star U.S. Army general and statesman who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later as Secretary of State, playing a central leadership role in U.S. military and foreign policy at the end of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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four-star general ⓘ human ⓘ retired U.S. Army general ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Army Distinguished Service Medal
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Bronze Star Medal ⓘ Defense Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ Defense Superior Service Medal ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ NATO Meritorious Service Medal ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (FM 3-24) ⓘ |
| conflict |
Bosnian War (post-conflict stabilization)
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Iraq War ⓘ War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-11-07 ⓘ |
| degree |
B.S. in Engineering
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M.P.A. from Princeton University ⓘ Ph.D. in International Relations from Princeton University ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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U.S. Army Command and General Staff College ⓘ
linked to:
Command and General Staff School
United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| employer | Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| endTime | 2012-11-09 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Petraeus
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linked to:
David Petraeus
|
| fieldOfStudy |
international relations
ⓘ
public affairs ⓘ |
| fullName |
David Howell Petraeus
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linked to:
David Petraeus
|
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | General ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan
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development of modern counterinsurgency doctrine ⓘ leadership of coalition forces during the Iraq War ⓘ service as Director of the CIA ⓘ |
| numberOfStars | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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intelligence official ⓘ military officer ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, United States
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linked to:
Town of Cornwall, New York
|
| positionHeld |
Chief of Operations, NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Commander of U.S. Central Command ⓘ Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ⓘ
linked to:
International Security Assistance Force
Commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan ⓘ Commanding General, Multi-National Force – Iraq ⓘ
linked to:
Multinational force in Iraq
Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| serviceEnd | 2011 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1974 ⓘ |
| spouse | Holly Petraeus ⓘ |
| startTime | 2011-09-06 ⓘ |
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: David Petraeus Description of subject: David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former CIA Director best known for leading coalition forces during the Iraq War and shaping modern counterinsurgency strategy.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: David Petraeus