Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
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Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery canonical | 1 |
| Colonel William H. Milton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7270632 — 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: Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery Context triple: [Battle of Marianna, commander, Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery]
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A.
Colonel George F. James
Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
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B.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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C.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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D.
Colonel James C. Rice
Colonel James C. Rice was a Union Army officer and regimental commander in the American Civil War, noted for leading the 44th New York Infantry.
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E.
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
- 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: Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery Target entity description: Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
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A.
Colonel George F. James
Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
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B.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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C.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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D.
Colonel James C. Rice
Colonel James C. Rice was a Union Army officer and regimental commander in the American Civil War, noted for leading the 44th New York Infantry.
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E.
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate military officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| commandedInBattle | Battle of Marianna ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableEvent | defense of Marianna, Florida, against Union forces during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding Confederate forces at the Battle of Marianna ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Florida
ⓘ
Marianna, Florida ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
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: Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery Description of subject: Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery