Colonel John McKee
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Colonel John McKee was a military leader known for commanding forces during the early 19th-century Patriot War of East Florida, a conflict tied to U.S. expansionist efforts against Spanish control in the region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel John McKee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10304420 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John McKee Context triple: [Patriot War of East Florida, hasCommander, Colonel John McKee]
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A.
Colonel Edward Hatch
Colonel Edward Hatch was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading military operations against Apache leader Victorio during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
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B.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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C.
Colonel Sam McLaughlin
Colonel Sam McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
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D.
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
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E.
Colonel James Barrett
Colonel James Barrett was a colonial militia leader whose farm in Concord, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Colonel John McKee Target entity description: Colonel John McKee was a military leader known for commanding forces during the early 19th-century Patriot War of East Florida, a conflict tied to U.S. expansionist efforts against Spanish control in the region.
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A.
Colonel Edward Hatch
Colonel Edward Hatch was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading military operations against Apache leader Victorio during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
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B.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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C.
Colonel Sam McLaughlin
Colonel Sam McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
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D.
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
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E.
Colonel James Barrett
Colonel James Barrett was a colonial militia leader whose farm in Concord, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| areaOfOperations | East Florida ⓘ |
| associatedWith | U.S. expansionist efforts against Spanish Florida ⓘ |
| conflictSide | U.S.-aligned Patriot forces in East Florida ⓘ |
| countryOfAllegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| historicalContext | U.S. expansion into Spanish-held territories in the early 1800s ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | land forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding forces in the Patriot War of East Florida ⓘ |
| occupation | military leader ⓘ |
| opposed | Spanish control in East Florida ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Patriot War of East Florida ⓘ |
| role | commander of Patriot forces in East Florida ⓘ |
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: Colonel John McKee Description of subject: Colonel John McKee was a military leader known for commanding forces during the early 19th-century Patriot War of East Florida, a conflict tied to U.S. expansionist efforts against Spanish control in the region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.