Union General John T. Wilder
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Union General John T. Wilder was a Civil War officer best known for leading the innovative "Lightning Brigade" of mounted infantry and later becoming an influential industrialist and civic leader in Tennessee.
All labels observed (1)
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| Union General John T. Wilder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8404068 — 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: Union General John T. Wilder Context triple: [Rockwood, Tennessee, founder, Union General John T. Wilder]
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John E. Wool
John E. Wool was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer who served with distinction in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the Civil War.
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Major General John B. Gordon
Major General John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate corps commander in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership in the Eastern Theater and later service as a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
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Major General Gouverneur K. Warren
Major General Gouverneur K. Warren was a prominent Union Army officer and engineer in the American Civil War, best known for his decisive leadership at key battles such as Gettysburg.
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Major General Andrew A. Humphreys
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys was a Union Army officer and distinguished Civil War corps commander noted for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac.
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Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins
Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins was a pioneering U.S. Army Air Corps officer widely regarded as the "father of Air Force logistics" for his foundational work in organizing and modernizing military air supply and maintenance systems.
- 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: Union General John T. Wilder Target entity description: Union General John T. Wilder was a Civil War officer best known for leading the innovative "Lightning Brigade" of mounted infantry and later becoming an influential industrialist and civic leader in Tennessee.
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A.
John E. Wool
John E. Wool was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer who served with distinction in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the Civil War.
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B.
Major General John B. Gordon
Major General John B. Gordon was a prominent Confederate corps commander in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership in the Eastern Theater and later service as a U.S. senator and governor of Georgia.
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C.
Major General Gouverneur K. Warren
Major General Gouverneur K. Warren was a prominent Union Army officer and engineer in the American Civil War, best known for his decisive leadership at key battles such as Gettysburg.
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D.
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys was a Union Army officer and distinguished Civil War corps commander noted for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac.
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E.
Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins
Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins was a pioneering U.S. Army Air Corps officer widely regarded as the "father of Air Force logistics" for his foundational work in organizing and modernizing military air supply and maintenance systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Union General John T. Wilder Description of subject: Union General John T. Wilder was a Civil War officer best known for leading the innovative "Lightning Brigade" of mounted infantry and later becoming an influential industrialist and civic leader in Tennessee.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.