Henry Atkinson
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Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal forces during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Atkinson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T74128 — 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: Henry Atkinson Context triple: [Black Hawk War, hasParticipant, Henry Atkinson]
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A.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Frederic L. Smith
Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
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D.
Walter A. Brown
Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
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E.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 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: Henry Atkinson Target entity description: Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal forces during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
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A.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Frederic L. Smith
Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
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D.
Walter A. Brown
Walter A. Brown was an American sports executive best known for helping establish the NBA and building the Boston Celtics into a championship franchise.
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E.
James Gamble Rogers
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Black Hawk War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Atkinson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Black Hawk War of 1832
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linked to:
Black Hawk War
|
| notableFor | commanding federal forces during the Black Hawk War of 1832 ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of federal forces in the Black Hawk War ⓘ |
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: Henry Atkinson Description of subject: Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal forces during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.