Edward Porter Alexander
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Edward Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate general and artillery officer during the American Civil War, later known for his influential postwar memoirs and engineering work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Porter Alexander canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4136572 — 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: Edward Porter Alexander Context triple: [Lake View Cemetery, notableBurial, Edward Porter Alexander]
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A.
Frederick Russell Jones
Frederick Russell Jones, better known as Ahmad Jamal, was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader renowned for his innovative use of space, dynamics, and subtlety in modern jazz.
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B.
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was a 19th-century United States Army officer and engineer best known for his service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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C.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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D.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
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E.
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
- 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: Edward Porter Alexander Target entity description: Edward Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate general and artillery officer during the American Civil War, later known for his influential postwar memoirs and engineering work.
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A.
Frederick Russell Jones
Frederick Russell Jones, better known as Ahmad Jamal, was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader renowned for his innovative use of space, dynamics, and subtlety in modern jazz.
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B.
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was a 19th-century United States Army officer and engineer best known for his service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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C.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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D.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
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E.
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Edward Porter Alexander Description of subject: Edward Porter Alexander was a prominent Confederate general and artillery officer during the American Civil War, later known for his influential postwar memoirs and engineering work.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.