Ichabod Alden
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Ichabod Alden was an American Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War, best known for his role in the frontier conflicts of upstate New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ichabod Alden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8608320 — 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: Ichabod Alden Context triple: [Cherry Valley raid, commander, Ichabod Alden]
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A.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
Ichabod Washburn
Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Ichabod
"Ichabod" is a famous 1850 anti-slavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier lamenting Daniel Webster’s support of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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D.
Charlie Runkle
Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
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E.
Mr. Vandemar
Mr. Vandemar is a brutal, seemingly immortal assassin and one of the primary antagonists in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
- 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: Ichabod Alden Target entity description: Ichabod Alden was an American Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War, best known for his role in the frontier conflicts of upstate New York.
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A.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
Ichabod Washburn
Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Ichabod
"Ichabod" is a famous 1850 anti-slavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier lamenting Daniel Webster’s support of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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D.
Charlie Runkle
Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
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E.
Mr. Vandemar
Mr. Vandemar is a brutal, seemingly immortal assassin and one of the primary antagonists in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Congress
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Alden ⓘ |
| givenName | Ichabod ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor | frontier conflicts in upstate New York during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableRole | command in frontier defense in upstate New York ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| partOf |
Continental Army officer corps
ⓘ
linked to:
officers of the Continental Army
|
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: Ichabod Alden Description of subject: Ichabod Alden was an American Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War, best known for his role in the frontier conflicts of upstate New York.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.