Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood
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Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender, effectively ending the last major Native American armed resistance to the U.S. government.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9784328 — 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: Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood Context triple: [Skeleton Canyon surrender of Geronimo, negotiator, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood]
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A.
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot whose fatal training accident in 1941 led to the naming of Bradley International Airport in his honor.
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B.
Sgt. John M. Stryker
Sgt. John M. Stryker is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Marine sergeant portrayed by John Wayne, known for his strict discipline and leadership during World War II in the film "Sands of Iwo Jima."
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C.
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey is a Navy SEAL team leader and increasingly unstable antagonist in the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss."
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D.
Lt. Harold Woodruff
Lt. Harold Woodruff is a fictional military officer featured as a character in the war-themed board game "Attack!".
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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: Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood Target entity description: Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender, effectively ending the last major Native American armed resistance to the U.S. government.
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A.
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot whose fatal training accident in 1941 led to the naming of Bradley International Airport in his honor.
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B.
Sgt. John M. Stryker
Sgt. John M. Stryker is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Marine sergeant portrayed by John Wayne, known for his strict discipline and leadership during World War II in the film "Sands of Iwo Jima."
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C.
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey is a Navy SEAL team leader and increasingly unstable antagonist in the 1989 science fiction film "The Abyss."
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D.
Lt. Harold Woodruff
Lt. Harold Woodruff is a fictional military officer featured as a character in the war-themed board game "Attack!".
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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 (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apache people
ⓘ
Geronimo ⓘ U.S. Indian Wars ⓘ
linked to:
American Indian Wars in the West
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| causeOfNotability | ending last major Native American armed resistance to U.S. government ⓘ |
| conflict | Apache Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Gatewood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
frontier warfare
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military leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
contributed to end of organized Apache armed resistance
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helped end last major Native American armed resistance to U.S. government ⓘ |
| hasHonor | reputation for fair dealing with Apache people ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | career officer ⓘ |
| notableEvent | final campaign against Geronimo ⓘ |
| notableFor | persuading Geronimo to surrender to U.S. forces ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Negotiation of Geronimo’s final surrender
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linked to:
Skeleton Canyon surrender of Geronimo
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| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Apache Wars ⓘ |
| positionHeld | officer in U.S. cavalry ⓘ |
| role | U.S. Army officer in negotiations with Geronimo ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Geronimo’s surrender in 1886 ⓘ |
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: Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood Description of subject: Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood was a U.S. Army officer best known for his pivotal role in persuading the Apache leader Geronimo to surrender, effectively ending the last major Native American armed resistance to the U.S. government.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.