Henry W. Slocum
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Henry W. Slocum was a prominent Union major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in key campaigns including Sherman’s March to the Sea.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry W. Slocum canonical | 7 |
| Henry Warner Slocum | 7 |
| Major General Henry W. Slocum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6051448 — 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 W. Slocum Context triple: [Savannah Campaign, notableUnionCommander, Henry W. Slocum]
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Henry W. Halleck
Henry W. Halleck was a prominent Union Army general and military administrator during the American Civil War, known for his role as general-in-chief and later chief of staff to Ulysses S. Grant.
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B.
Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his cautious leadership in the Western Theater and his controversial role in several key campaigns.
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C.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
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D.
Irvin McDowell Garfield
Irvin McDowell Garfield was an American lawyer and public servant, best known as one of the sons of U.S. President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Rudolph Garfield.
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E.
Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading federal forces in the war’s first major land battle and later serving in various departmental commands.
- 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 W. Slocum Target entity description: Henry W. Slocum was a prominent Union major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in key campaigns including Sherman’s March to the Sea.
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A.
Henry W. Halleck
Henry W. Halleck was a prominent Union Army general and military administrator during the American Civil War, known for his role as general-in-chief and later chief of staff to Ulysses S. Grant.
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B.
Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his cautious leadership in the Western Theater and his controversial role in several key campaigns.
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C.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
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D.
Irvin McDowell Garfield
Irvin McDowell Garfield was an American lawyer and public servant, best known as one of the sons of U.S. President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Rudolph Garfield.
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E.
Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading federal forces in the war’s first major land battle and later serving in various departmental commands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Union Army general
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
American Civil War historiography
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Union Army records ⓘ biographical dictionaries of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Slocum ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military leadership
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military strategy ⓘ |
| genre | military history subject ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Union general
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military officer ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command at the Battle of Gettysburg
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leadership in major Union campaigns during the American Civil War ⓘ role in Sherman’s March to the Sea ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of the left wing of Sherman’s army during the March to the Sea ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Atlanta campaign
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linked to:
Atlanta Campaign
Battle of Antietam ⓘ Battle of Chancellorsville ⓘ Battle of Fredericksburg ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ Carolinas campaign ⓘ
linked to:
Carolinas Campaign
Sherman’s March to the Sea ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
army wing commander in the Union Army
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corps commander in the Union Army ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 W. Slocum Description of subject: Henry W. Slocum was a prominent Union major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in key campaigns including Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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