Samuel W. Carroll
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Samuel W. Carroll was a Union Army officer and brigade commander during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel W. Carroll canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10822858 — 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: Samuel W. Carroll Context triple: [Battle of Port Republic, commander, Samuel W. Carroll]
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A.
Benjamin W. S. Cabell
Benjamin W. S. Cabell was a 19th-century American figure best known as the father of Confederate general and Dallas mayor William L. Cabell.
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B.
Robert Crittenden
Robert Crittenden was an early 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as the first secretary and de facto governor of the Arkansas Territory.
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C.
Amos Kendall
Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
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D.
Thomas Crittenden
Thomas Crittenden was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Missouri and later as U.S. Attorney General.
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E.
William L. Cabell
William L. Cabell was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent political figure and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
- 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: Samuel W. Carroll Target entity description: Samuel W. Carroll was a Union Army officer and brigade commander during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
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A.
Benjamin W. S. Cabell
Benjamin W. S. Cabell was a 19th-century American figure best known as the father of Confederate general and Dallas mayor William L. Cabell.
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B.
Robert Crittenden
Robert Crittenden was an early 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as the first secretary and de facto governor of the Arkansas Territory.
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C.
Amos Kendall
Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
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D.
Thomas Crittenden
Thomas Crittenden was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Missouri and later as U.S. Attorney General.
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E.
William L. Cabell
William L. Cabell was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent political figure and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War officer
ⓘ
Union Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| commanded | infantry brigade in the Army of the Potomac ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Carroll ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasRole | battlefield commander ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding infantry brigades in the Union Army
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leadership in several key battles of the American Civil War ⓘ leading counterattacks during the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| notableWork | defense of Cemetery Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Antietam
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Battle of Chancellorsville ⓘ Battle of Fredericksburg ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| positionHeld | brigade commander ⓘ |
| serviceIn | Army of the Potomac ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Samuel W. Carroll Description of subject: Samuel W. Carroll was a Union Army officer and brigade commander during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.