Israel Greene
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Israel Greene was a U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for leading the Marines’ assault that captured abolitionist John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Israel Greene canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11429730 — 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: Israel Greene Context triple: [United States Marines under Robert E. Lee, notableMember, Israel Greene]
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A.
Tamir Greenwood
Tamir Greenwood is a child of Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood.
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B.
Martin Greenberg
Martin Greenberg was an American publisher and editor best known for co-founding Gnome Press, which helped popularize early science fiction literature.
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C.
Daniel Green
Daniel Green is a music producer known for his work on the track "Paradise."
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D.
Jeffrey Greenstein
Jeffrey Greenstein is a film producer known for his work on action and genre movies, including the war drama "The Outpost."
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E.
Joshua Goldstein
Joshua Goldstein is a political scientist best known for his influential work on international relations, war and peace studies, and global security.
- 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: Israel Greene Target entity description: Israel Greene was a U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for leading the Marines’ assault that captured abolitionist John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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A.
Tamir Greenwood
Tamir Greenwood is a child of Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood.
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B.
Martin Greenberg
Martin Greenberg was an American publisher and editor best known for co-founding Gnome Press, which helped popularize early science fiction literature.
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C.
Daniel Green
Daniel Green is a music producer known for his work on the track "Paradise."
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D.
Jeffrey Greenstein
Jeffrey Greenstein is a film producer known for his work on action and genre movies, including the war drama "The Outpost."
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E.
Joshua Goldstein
Joshua Goldstein is a political scientist best known for his influential work on international relations, war and peace studies, and global security.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Marine Corps officer
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person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harpers Ferry raid
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linked to:
John Brown’s raid of 1859
John Brown ⓘ |
| captured | John Brown ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
abolitionist John Brown
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linked to:
John Brown
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| eventDate | 1859 ⓘ |
| eventLocation |
Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia)
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linked to:
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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| familyName | Greene ⓘ |
| givenName | Israel ⓘ |
| hasEthicalContext | involvement in suppression of an abolitionist uprising ⓘ |
| hasSubject | American Civil War era prelude ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century United States history ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Marine Corps in the 1850s ⓘ |
| movement | United States armed forces response to John Brown’s raid ⓘ |
| notableAction | led Marines in breaching the engine house door at Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assault on the engine house at Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the U.S. Marines’ assault on John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859 ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
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linked to:
John Brown’s raid of 1859
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| partOf | U.S. Marine detachment sent to suppress John Brown’s raid ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Harpers Ferry
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linked to:
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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| roleInEvent | commander of the Marine detachment that stormed the engine house at Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| typeOfOfficer | Marine Corps line officer ⓘ |
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: Israel Greene Description of subject: Israel Greene was a U.S. Marine Corps officer best known for leading the Marines’ assault that captured abolitionist John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.