Benjamin F. Cheatham
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Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin F. Cheatham canonical | 6 |
| Benjamin Franklin Cheatham | 2 |
| B. F. Cheatham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7223074 — 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: Benjamin F. Cheatham Context triple: [Cheatham Hill, namedAfter, Benjamin F. Cheatham]
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A.
Henry Plummer Cheatham
Henry Plummer Cheatham was an African American educator, politician, and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina during the late 19th century who was notable for his advocacy of civil rights and service as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
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B.
Charles T. Menoher
Charles T. Menoher was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I and later served as the first chief of the Army Air Service.
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C.
Emory A. Chase
Emory A. Chase was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
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D.
Samuel M. Ralston
Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
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E.
William B. Umstead
William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
- 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: Benjamin F. Cheatham Target entity description: Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
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A.
Henry Plummer Cheatham
Henry Plummer Cheatham was an African American educator, politician, and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina during the late 19th century who was notable for his advocacy of civil rights and service as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
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B.
Charles T. Menoher
Charles T. Menoher was a U.S. Army major general who commanded the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I and later served as the first chief of the Army Air Service.
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C.
Emory A. Chase
Emory A. Chase was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
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D.
Samuel M. Ralston
Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
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E.
William B. Umstead
William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Benjamin F. Cheatham Description of subject: Benjamin F. Cheatham was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Army of Tennessee.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Benjamin F. Cheatham
linked to: Benjamin F. Cheatham
linked to: Benjamin F. Cheatham