Colonel William Ledyard
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Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel William Ledyard canonical | 1 |
| Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4195132 — 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: Colonel William Ledyard Context triple: [Battle of Groton Heights, commandedByAmerican, Colonel William Ledyard]
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A.
Colonel John Quincy
Colonel John Quincy was an American colonial military officer and prominent Massachusetts politician whose legacy includes being the namesake of both the city of Quincy and President John Quincy Adams.
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Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
- 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: Colonel William Ledyard Target entity description: Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
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A.
Colonel John Quincy
Colonel John Quincy was an American colonial military officer and prominent Massachusetts politician whose legacy includes being the namesake of both the city of Quincy and President John Quincy Adams.
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B.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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C.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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D.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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E.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Colonel William Ledyard Description of subject: Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Colonel William Ledyard