Sylvanus Thayer

Target entity: Sylvanus Thayer
Context triple: [Thayer Hotel, namedAfter, Sylvanus Thayer]

• A. Charles Devens
  Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
• B. Horatio Gates
  Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
• C. 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.
• D. Albert J. Myer
  Albert J. Myer was a U.S. Army officer and surgeon best known as the founder and first chief of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he pioneered military signaling and weather observation systems.
• E. FitzWilliam Sargent
  FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Sylvanus Thayer
Target entity description: Sylvanus Thayer was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and engineer known as the “Father of the Military Academy” for his transformative leadership of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

• A. Charles Devens
  Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
• B. Horatio Gates
  Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
• C. 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.
• D. Albert J. Myer
  Albert J. Myer was a U.S. Army officer and surgeon best known as the founder and first chief of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he pioneered military signaling and weather observation systems.
• E. FitzWilliam Sargent
  FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
• F. None of above. chosen