George B. McClellan Jr.
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George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George B. McClellan Jr. canonical | 13 |
| George B. McClellan | 1 |
| George Brinton McClellan Harvey | 1 |
| McClellan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T487112 — 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: George B. McClellan Jr. Context triple: [George B. McClellan, child, George B. McClellan Jr.]
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George McClellan
George McClellan was a Union general during the American Civil War who organized the Army of the Potomac and later ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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B.
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
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C.
Charles A. Halleck
Charles A. Halleck was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican congressman from Indiana who served as a key party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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D.
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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E.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
- 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: George B. McClellan Jr. Target entity description: George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
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A.
George McClellan
George McClellan was a Union general during the American Civil War who organized the Army of the Potomac and later ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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B.
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
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C.
Charles A. Halleck
Charles A. Halleck was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican congressman from Indiana who served as a key party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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D.
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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E.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: George B. McClellan Jr. Description of subject: George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
George McClellan
linked to: George B. McClellan Jr.
subject linked to:
Little Mac
linked to: George B. McClellan Jr.
linked to: George B. McClellan Jr.
subject linked to:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey, United States