Thomas Houston
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Thomas Houston was a British military officer known for his command role in the Peninsular War, particularly at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Houston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9400655 — 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: Thomas Houston Context triple: [Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, commander, Thomas Houston]
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A.
Gilbert Vandine Houston
Gilbert Vandine Houston, better known as Cisco Houston, was an American folk singer and guitarist closely associated with Woody Guthrie and the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.
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B.
John Russell Houston Jr.
John Russell Houston Jr. was an American entertainment executive best known as the father of singer Whitney Houston and the former husband of gospel vocalist Cissy Houston.
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C.
Sam Edwards
Sam Edwards was a prominent British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in condensed matter physics and the statistical mechanics of disordered systems, including polymers and glasses.
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D.
Hugo Wilson Dallas
Hugo Wilson Dallas is the son of American actress Ginnifer Goodwin and her husband, actor Josh Dallas.
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E.
Jesse H. Jones
Jesse H. Jones was an influential American businessman, politician, and philanthropist who played a major role in U.S. economic policy during the New Deal era.
- 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: Thomas Houston Target entity description: Thomas Houston was a British military officer known for his command role in the Peninsular War, particularly at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro.
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A.
Gilbert Vandine Houston
Gilbert Vandine Houston, better known as Cisco Houston, was an American folk singer and guitarist closely associated with Woody Guthrie and the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.
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B.
John Russell Houston Jr.
John Russell Houston Jr. was an American entertainment executive best known as the father of singer Whitney Houston and the former husband of gospel vocalist Cissy Houston.
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C.
Sam Edwards
Sam Edwards was a prominent British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in condensed matter physics and the statistical mechanics of disordered systems, including polymers and glasses.
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D.
Hugo Wilson Dallas
Hugo Wilson Dallas is the son of American actress Ginnifer Goodwin and her husband, actor Josh Dallas.
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E.
Jesse H. Jones
Jesse H. Jones was an influential American businessman, politician, and philanthropist who played a major role in U.S. economic policy during the New Deal era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Napoleonic Wars
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Peninsular War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command role at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
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command role in the Peninsular War ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
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Peninsular War ⓘ |
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: Thomas Houston Description of subject: Thomas Houston was a British military officer known for his command role in the Peninsular War, particularly at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.