Benedict Arnold I
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Benedict Arnold I was an early member of the prominent Arnold family in colonial America, known primarily as an ancestor of the infamous Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benedict Arnold I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11759955 — 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: Benedict Arnold I Context triple: [Arnold family, notableMember, Benedict Arnold I]
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A.
Benedict Arnold III
Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
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B.
Benedict Arnold V
Benedict Arnold V was an American Revolutionary War general whose name became synonymous with treason after he defected to the British.
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C.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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D.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Simeon Baldwin
Simeon Baldwin was a prominent American jurist and politician from Connecticut who served as governor and as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
- 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: Benedict Arnold I Target entity description: Benedict Arnold I was an early member of the prominent Arnold family in colonial America, known primarily as an ancestor of the infamous Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold.
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A.
Benedict Arnold III
Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
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B.
Benedict Arnold V
Benedict Arnold V was an American Revolutionary War general whose name became synonymous with treason after he defected to the British.
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C.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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D.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Simeon Baldwin
Simeon Baldwin was a prominent American jurist and politician from Connecticut who served as governor and as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial American
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| familyName | Arnold ⓘ |
| givenName | Benedict ⓘ |
| hasDescendant | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| memberOf | Arnold family ⓘ |
| notableAs | ancestor of Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an early member of a prominent colonial American family ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | early member of Arnold family ⓘ |
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: Benedict Arnold I Description of subject: Benedict Arnold I was an early member of the prominent Arnold family in colonial America, known primarily as an ancestor of the infamous Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.