Philip Skippon
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Philip Skippon was a prominent 17th-century English soldier and Parliamentarian general who played a key role in the English Civil War, particularly as a senior officer in the New Model Army.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Skippon canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T149635 — 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 Skippon Context triple: [New Model Army, notableCommander, Philip Skippon]
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A.
Will Firth
Will Firth is the son of English actor Colin Firth and is known primarily for his connection to his father's prominent film career.
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B.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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C.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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D.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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E.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
- 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 Skippon Target entity description: Philip Skippon was a prominent 17th-century English soldier and Parliamentarian general who played a key role in the English Civil War, particularly as a senior officer in the New Model Army.
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A.
Will Firth
Will Firth is the son of English actor Colin Firth and is known primarily for his connection to his father's prominent film career.
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B.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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C.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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D.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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E.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English soldier
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Parliamentarian general ⓘ military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Parliament of England ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New Model Army
ⓘ
Parliamentarian cause ⓘ |
| conflict |
First English Civil War
ⓘ
linked to:
English Civil War
Second English Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
infantry tactics
ⓘ
military affairs ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
battlefield command
ⓘ
military leadership ⓘ |
| hasRole | infantry commander ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Puritan military culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Parliamentarian leadership in the English Civil War
ⓘ
role as senior officer in the New Model Army ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Parliamentarian army
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linked to:
New Model Army
|
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
New Model Army infantry
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linked to:
New Model Army
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| notableAchievement | helping secure Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Naseby
ⓘ
campaigns against Royalist forces ⓘ |
| notableFor | discipline and organization of infantry forces ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in the New Model Army ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | English Civil War ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Parliamentarian ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander in the New Model Army
ⓘ
major-general ⓘ sergeant-major-general of the infantry ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| roleIn | reorganization of Parliamentarian forces into the New Model Army ⓘ |
| sideInConflict |
Roundheads
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linked to:
New Model 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: Philip Skippon Description of subject: Philip Skippon was a prominent 17th-century English soldier and Parliamentarian general who played a key role in the English Civil War, particularly as a senior officer in the New Model Army.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.