Edward "Allegheny" Johnson
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Edward "Allegheny" Johnson was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his hard fighting in the Shenandoah Valley and his service under Stonewall Jackson and later in the Army of Northern Virginia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward "Allegheny" Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12338385 — 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: Edward "Allegheny" Johnson Context triple: [Battle of McDowell, commander, Edward "Allegheny" Johnson]
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Silas H. Rhodes
Silas H. Rhodes was an American educator and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of New York City's School of Visual Arts, a prominent art and design college.
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B.
Alfred Fitler Moore
Alfred Fitler Moore was a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
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C.
John A. Brown
John A. Brown was an American financier and member of the prominent Brown banking family, instrumental in the early development of the firm that became Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
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D.
Charles Melville Hays
Charles Melville Hays was an American-born railway executive best known as the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and for perishing in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
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E.
Albert Mussey Johnson
Albert Mussey Johnson was an early 20th-century American businessman and investor best known as the wealthy patron and co-developer of Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley, California.
- 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: Edward "Allegheny" Johnson Target entity description: Edward "Allegheny" Johnson was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his hard fighting in the Shenandoah Valley and his service under Stonewall Jackson and later in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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A.
Silas H. Rhodes
Silas H. Rhodes was an American educator and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of New York City's School of Visual Arts, a prominent art and design college.
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B.
Alfred Fitler Moore
Alfred Fitler Moore was a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
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C.
John A. Brown
John A. Brown was an American financier and member of the prominent Brown banking family, instrumental in the early development of the firm that became Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
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D.
Charles Melville Hays
Charles Melville Hays was an American-born railway executive best known as the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and for perishing in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
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E.
Albert Mussey Johnson
Albert Mussey Johnson was an early 20th-century American businessman and investor best known as the wealthy patron and co-developer of Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Army of Northern Virginia
ⓘ
Shenandoah Valley campaigns ⓘ Stonewall Jackson ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country | United States (before secession) ⓘ |
| foughtFor | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| fullName | Edward Johnson ⓘ |
| hasEthicalContext | service for a slaveholding rebellion (Confederacy) ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRole | field commander ⓘ |
| nickname | Allegheny ⓘ |
| notableFor |
reputation as a hard fighter
ⓘ
service in the Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ service in the Shenandoah Valley campaigns ⓘ |
| notedFor | hard fighting in the Shenandoah Valley ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| rank | Major general ⓘ |
| servedIn | Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Stonewall Jackson ⓘ |
| side |
Confederacy
ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate States of America
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| theater | Shenandoah Valley ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Edward "Allegheny" Johnson Description of subject: Edward "Allegheny" Johnson was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his hard fighting in the Shenandoah Valley and his service under Stonewall Jackson and later in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.