James H. Ford
E952098
James H. Ford was a U.S. Army officer, notably a Union cavalry commander during the American Civil War, after whom Ford County, Kansas, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James H. Ford canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6347534 — 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: James H. Ford Context triple: [Ford County, Kansas, namedAfter, James H. Ford]
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A.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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B.
Phillip A. Talbert
Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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C.
James D. Hargrove
James D. Hargrove is a songwriter best known for his work on the song "Over and Over."
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D.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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E.
Dexter M. Ferry
Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
- 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: James H. Ford Target entity description: James H. Ford was a U.S. Army officer, notably a Union cavalry commander during the American Civil War, after whom Ford County, Kansas, is named.
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A.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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B.
Phillip A. Talbert
Phillip A. Talbert is a federal prosecutor who serves as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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C.
James D. Hargrove
James D. Hargrove is a songwriter best known for his work on the song "Over and Over."
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D.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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E.
Dexter M. Ferry
Dexter M. Ferry was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the D.M. Ferry & Co. seed company in Detroit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army officer
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Union Army officer ⓘ cavalry commander ⓘ county ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Ford County, Kansas, named after him
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linked to:
Ford County, Kansas
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| locatedIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James H. Ford ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a Union cavalry commander in the American Civil War ⓘ |
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: James H. Ford Description of subject: James H. Ford was a U.S. Army officer, notably a Union cavalry commander during the American Civil War, after whom Ford County, Kansas, is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.