First Lieutenant Edward Theller
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First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| First Lieutenant Edward Theller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11131607 — 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: First Lieutenant Edward Theller Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant Edward Theller]
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A.
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
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B.
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
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C.
Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall
Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot and World War I flying ace after whom Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is named.
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D.
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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E.
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
- 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: First Lieutenant Edward Theller Target entity description: First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
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A.
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
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B.
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
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C.
Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall
Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot and World War I flying ace after whom Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is named.
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D.
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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E.
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| conflict | Nez Perce War ⓘ |
| countryOfService |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| date | 1877 ⓘ |
| familyName | Theller ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | First Lieutenant ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877
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Role in the Nez Perce War ⓘ |
| notableWork | Commanding U.S. Army troops at the Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
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: First Lieutenant Edward Theller Description of subject: First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.