the Old General
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The Old General is a fictional elderly military leader who appears as a central character in the short story "A Fable" by William Faulkner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the Old General canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5532348 — 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: the Old General Context triple: [A Fable, hasCharacter, the Old General]
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A.
The General
The General was the nickname of David Sarnoff, the influential broadcasting pioneer and longtime leader of RCA who helped shape the development of American radio and television.
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B.
The General
The General is a science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov, part of his Foundation series, focusing on the clash between psychohistory and the military genius of General Bel Riose.
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C.
The General
The General is a famous 19th-century American steam locomotive best known for its central role in the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
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D.
The Colonel
The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
the Colonel
The Colonel is a central character in Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "La hojarasca," representing an aging, disillusioned patriarch who embodies the lingering legacy of past conflicts and the weight of family and societal obligations in a decaying Caribbean town.
- 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: the Old General Target entity description: The Old General is a fictional elderly military leader who appears as a central character in the short story "A Fable" by William Faulkner.
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A.
The General
The General was the nickname of David Sarnoff, the influential broadcasting pioneer and longtime leader of RCA who helped shape the development of American radio and television.
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B.
The General
The General is a science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov, part of his Foundation series, focusing on the clash between psychohistory and the military genius of General Bel Riose.
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C.
The General
The General is a famous 19th-century American steam locomotive best known for its central role in the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
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D.
The Colonel
The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
the Colonel
The Colonel is a central character in Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "La hojarasca," representing an aging, disillusioned patriarch who embodies the lingering legacy of past conflicts and the weight of family and societal obligations in a decaying Caribbean town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| age | elderly ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | A Fable ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| hasTitle | the Old General ⓘ |
| occupation | military leader ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| workGenre | short story ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: the Old General Description of subject: The Old General is a fictional elderly military leader who appears as a central character in the short story "A Fable" by William Faulkner.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.