Captain Thomas L. Roberts
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Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Thomas L. Roberts canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9784279 — 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: Captain Thomas L. Roberts Context triple: [Battle of Apache Pass, commander, Captain Thomas L. Roberts]
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A.
Captain John H. Miller
Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
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B.
Captain Frederick C. Bock
Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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C.
Captain Charles J. Johnston
Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
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D.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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E.
Lt. Henry T. Allen
Lt. Henry T. Allen was a U.S. Army officer and explorer noted for his pioneering 19th-century expeditions in Alaska.
- 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: Captain Thomas L. Roberts Target entity description: Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
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A.
Captain John H. Miller
Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
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B.
Captain Frederick C. Bock
Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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C.
Captain Charles J. Johnston
Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
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D.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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E.
Lt. Henry T. Allen
Lt. Henry T. Allen was a U.S. Army officer and explorer noted for his pioneering 19th-century expeditions in Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| commanded | Union troops at Apache Pass ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateParticipated | 1862 ⓘ |
| engagedWith |
Apache forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Apache homelands
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| familyName | Roberts ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Captain ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Captain ⓘ |
| notability | Leadership in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Apache Pass ⓘ |
| notableWork | Leadership of Union troops at the Battle of Apache Pass ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Union Army operations in the Southwest
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linked to:
Union Army campaigns
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| placeOfActivity |
American Southwest
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linked to:
southwestern United States
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| role | Union field commander at the Battle of Apache Pass ⓘ |
| serviceDuringWar | American Civil War ⓘ |
| theaterOfWar |
Trans-Mississippi Theater
ⓘ
Western Theater of the American Civil 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: Captain Thomas L. Roberts Description of subject: Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.