Philip Egner
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Philip Egner was an American bandmaster and composer best known for writing the United States Military Academy's fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Egner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4080144 — 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 Egner Context triple: [On, Brave Old Army Team, composer, Philip Egner]
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A.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
George Boemler
George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Carl Rinsch
Carl Rinsch is a film director and commercial filmmaker best known for directing the fantasy action movie "47 Ronin" starring Keanu Reeves.
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E.
George Siegmann
George Siegmann was an American silent film actor known for his powerful character roles, including a prominent part in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
- 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 Egner Target entity description: Philip Egner was an American bandmaster and composer best known for writing the United States Military Academy's fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
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A.
Walter Naegle
Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
George Boemler
George Boemler was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical comedy "High Society."
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Carl Rinsch
Carl Rinsch is a film director and commercial filmmaker best known for directing the fantasy action movie "47 Ronin" starring Keanu Reeves.
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E.
George Siegmann
George Siegmann was an American silent film actor known for his powerful character roles, including a prominent part in D.W. Griffith’s landmark film "The Birth of a Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandmaster
ⓘ
composer ⓘ fight song ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military music ⓘ |
| genre |
college fight song
ⓘ
march music ⓘ |
| hasFightSong | On, Brave Old Army Team ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the United States Military Academy fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team" ⓘ |
| notableWork | On, Brave Old Army Team ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandmaster
ⓘ
composer ⓘ |
| use | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
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 Egner Description of subject: Philip Egner was an American bandmaster and composer best known for writing the United States Military Academy's fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.