Old Bear
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Old Bear was a Native American war leader known for commanding Indigenous forces during the 1876 Battle of the Powder River in the Great Sioux War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Bear canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10570554 — 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: Old Bear Context triple: [Battle of the Powder River (1876), commander, Old Bear]
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A.
Boomer the Bear
Boomer the Bear is the costumed bear mascot who represents Missouri State University at athletic events and campus activities.
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B.
Brisky the Bear
Brisky the Bear is the costumed bear mascot of Japan’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters professional baseball team, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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C.
Tim the Bear
Tim the Bear is a talking anthropomorphic bear and one of the main characters on the animated TV series "The Cleveland Show."
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D.
Bruce the Bear
Bruce the Bear is the costumed bear mascot representing the University of Central Arkansas at its athletic events and campus activities.
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E.
Bear and His Daughter
Bear and His Daughter is a collection of short stories by American author Robert Stone that explores themes of moral ambiguity, disillusionment, and spiritual crisis in contemporary life.
- 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: Old Bear Target entity description: Old Bear was a Native American war leader known for commanding Indigenous forces during the 1876 Battle of the Powder River in the Great Sioux War.
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A.
Boomer the Bear
Boomer the Bear is the costumed bear mascot who represents Missouri State University at athletic events and campus activities.
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B.
Brisky the Bear
Brisky the Bear is the costumed bear mascot of Japan’s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters professional baseball team, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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C.
Tim the Bear
Tim the Bear is a talking anthropomorphic bear and one of the main characters on the animated TV series "The Cleveland Show."
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D.
Bruce the Bear
Bruce the Bear is the costumed bear mascot representing the University of Central Arkansas at its athletic events and campus activities.
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E.
Bear and His Daughter
Bear and His Daughter is a collection of short stories by American author Robert Stone that explores themes of moral ambiguity, disillusionment, and spiritual crisis in contemporary life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American war leader
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historical figure ⓘ |
| activeDuring | 1876 ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Great Sioux War of 1876 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Native American ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Indigenous forces ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading Indigenous forces during the 1876 Battle of the Powder River ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of the Powder River (1876) ⓘ |
| role | commander of Indigenous forces at the Battle of the Powder River (1876) ⓘ |
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: Old Bear Description of subject: Old Bear was a Native American war leader known for commanding Indigenous forces during the 1876 Battle of the Powder River in the Great Sioux War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.