Józef Sowiński
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Józef Sowiński was a Polish general and artillery officer best known for his heroic defense of Warsaw’s Wola district during the November Uprising of 1831.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Józef Sowiński canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11537167 — 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: Józef Sowiński Context triple: [Szkoła Rycerska, educated, Józef Sowiński]
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A.
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and statesman who served as President of Poland from 1922 to 1926, during the turbulent interwar period.
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B.
Józef Świeżyński
Józef Świeżyński was a Polish politician who briefly served as prime minister of the Regency Kingdom of Poland during World War I.
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C.
Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Feliński was a Polish poet, playwright, and publicist of the early 19th century, associated with Polish Romantic and patriotic literature.
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D.
Władysław Ślewiński
Władysław Ślewiński was a Polish post-impressionist painter known for his close association with Paul Gauguin and his role in introducing modern French artistic trends to Polish art.
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E.
Józef Wybicki
Józef Wybicki was a Polish jurist, politician, and writer best known for authoring the lyrics of Poland’s national anthem.
- 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: Józef Sowiński Target entity description: Józef Sowiński was a Polish general and artillery officer best known for his heroic defense of Warsaw’s Wola district during the November Uprising of 1831.
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A.
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and statesman who served as President of Poland from 1922 to 1926, during the turbulent interwar period.
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B.
Józef Świeżyński
Józef Świeżyński was a Polish politician who briefly served as prime minister of the Regency Kingdom of Poland during World War I.
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C.
Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Feliński was a Polish poet, playwright, and publicist of the early 19th century, associated with Polish Romantic and patriotic literature.
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D.
Władysław Ślewiński
Władysław Ślewiński was a Polish post-impressionist painter known for his close association with Paul Gauguin and his role in introducing modern French artistic trends to Polish art.
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E.
Józef Wybicki
Józef Wybicki was a Polish jurist, politician, and writer best known for authoring the lyrics of Poland’s national anthem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish general
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artillery officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict | November Uprising ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Polish historiography
ⓘ
accounts of the November Uprising ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Poles ⓘ |
| familyName | Sowiński ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | military heroism ⓘ |
| givenName | Józef ⓘ |
| hasCause | struggle for Polish independence ⓘ |
| hasPartInNarrative | Polish Romantic patriotic tradition ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | death in battle ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | artillery ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defense of the Wola district of Warsaw in 1831
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participation in the November Uprising ⓘ |
| notableWork | defense of the Wola fortifications ⓘ |
| occupation |
artillery commander
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military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
November Uprising
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defense of Warsaw in 1831 ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Kingdom of Poland
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Warsaw ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of Wola defenses ⓘ |
| residence | Warsaw ⓘ |
| 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: Józef Sowiński Description of subject: Józef Sowiński was a Polish general and artillery officer best known for his heroic defense of Warsaw’s Wola district during the November Uprising of 1831.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.