Archibald Yell
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Archibald Yell was an American politician and soldier who served as the second governor of Arkansas and later died fighting in the Mexican–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Archibald Yell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10284747 — 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: Archibald Yell Context triple: [James Sevier Conway, succeededBy, Archibald Yell]
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A.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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B.
Archibald Roane
Archibald Roane was an early American politician and jurist who served as the second governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century.
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C.
Cadmus M. Wilcox
Cadmus M. Wilcox was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry divisions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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D.
Nathaniel Folsom
Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
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E.
Joseph Bancroft
Joseph Bancroft was an Australian physician and parasitologist known for his pioneering work on filarial worms, including the species later named Wuchereria bancrofti in his honor.
- 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: Archibald Yell Target entity description: Archibald Yell was an American politician and soldier who served as the second governor of Arkansas and later died fighting in the Mexican–American War.
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A.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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B.
Archibald Roane
Archibald Roane was an early American politician and jurist who served as the second governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century.
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C.
Cadmus M. Wilcox
Cadmus M. Wilcox was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry divisions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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D.
Nathaniel Folsom
Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
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E.
Joseph Bancroft
Joseph Bancroft was an Australian physician and parasitologist known for his pioneering work on filarial worms, including the species later named Wuchereria bancrofti in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| birthName | Archibald Yell ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| commanded | Arkansas volunteer regiment in the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1847-02-23 ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the second governor of Arkansas
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dying in combat during the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service as second governor of Arkansas
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service in the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| officeNumber | second governor of Arkansas ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Buena Vista, Mexico ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Arkansas
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Judge ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ Territorial judge in Arkansas Territory ⓘ U.S. Representative from Arkansas ⓘ at-large congressional representative from Arkansas ⓘ |
| residence | Arkansas ⓘ |
| stateRepresentedInCongress | Arkansas ⓘ |
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: Archibald Yell Description of subject: Archibald Yell was an American politician and soldier who served as the second governor of Arkansas and later died fighting in the Mexican–American War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.