Robert Pigot
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Robert Pigot was a British Army officer best known for his role as a commanding officer during the early battles of the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Pigot canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234028 — 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 Pigot Context triple: [Battle of Bunker Hill, notableParticipant, Robert Pigot]
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A.
John Roebuck
John Roebuck was an 18th-century English physician, chemist, and industrialist known for pioneering improvements in the lead-chamber process for producing sulfuric acid and for his early partnership with James Watt.
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B.
Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo was an American film director and actor best known for his work during the silent era, including classics like "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" (1925).
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C.
George Goschen
George Goschen was a British Conservative politician and statesman of the late 19th century who held several high offices, including leadership roles in naval administration.
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D.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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E.
William Armstrong
William Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including engineers, politicians, and athletes, whose specific identity depends on the context in which the name appears.
- 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 Pigot Target entity description: Robert Pigot was a British Army officer best known for his role as a commanding officer during the early battles of the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
John Roebuck
John Roebuck was an 18th-century English physician, chemist, and industrialist known for pioneering improvements in the lead-chamber process for producing sulfuric acid and for his early partnership with James Watt.
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B.
Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo was an American film director and actor best known for his work during the silent era, including classics like "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" (1925).
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C.
George Goschen
George Goschen was a British Conservative politician and statesman of the late 19th century who held several high offices, including leadership roles in naval administration.
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D.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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E.
William Armstrong
William Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including engineers, politicians, and athletes, whose specific identity depends on the context in which the name appears.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor | role as a commanding officer during the early battles of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
command at the Battle of Bunker Hill
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command during early battles of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commanding officer in the British Army ⓘ |
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 Pigot Description of subject: Robert Pigot was a British Army officer best known for his role as a commanding officer during the early battles of the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.