Francis L. Dade
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Francis L. Dade was a U.S. Army major killed during the Second Seminole War whose death in a notable 1835 ambush led to several places, including Miami-Dade County, being named in his honor.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Francis L. Dade canonical | 12 |
| Major Francis L. Dade | 7 |
| Major Francis Langhorne Dade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T789043 — 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: Francis L. Dade Context triple: [Miami-Dade County, namedAfter, Francis L. Dade]
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A.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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B.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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C.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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D.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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E.
Josiah Harmar
Josiah Harmar was an early U.S. Army officer and Revolutionary War veteran best known for leading a failed 1790 campaign against Native American confederacies in the Northwest Indian 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: Francis L. Dade Target entity description: Francis L. Dade was a U.S. Army major killed during the Second Seminole War whose death in a notable 1835 ambush led to several places, including Miami-Dade County, being named in his honor.
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A.
Colonel Alexander Bliss
Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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B.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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C.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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D.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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E.
Josiah Harmar
Josiah Harmar was an early U.S. Army officer and Revolutionary War veteran best known for leading a failed 1790 campaign against Native American confederacies in the Northwest Indian War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Augustine National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict | Second Seminole War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1835-12-28 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Dade ⓘ |
| givenName | Francis ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | soldier ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major ⓘ |
| namedAfterBy |
Dade City, Florida
ⓘ
Dade County, Florida ⓘ
linked to:
Miami-Dade County
Dade County, Georgia ⓘ
linked to:
Dade
Dade County, Missouri ⓘ Fort Dade ⓘ Miami-Dade County ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Dade Massacre
ⓘ
linked to:
Dade massacre
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| notableFor |
being killed in an 1835 ambush during the Second Seminole War
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having multiple U.S. counties named in his honor ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near present-day Bushnell, Florida ⓘ |
| 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: Francis L. Dade Description of subject: Francis L. Dade was a U.S. Army major killed during the Second Seminole War whose death in a notable 1835 ambush led to several places, including Miami-Dade County, being named in his honor.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.