John H. Hester
E1020654
John H. Hester was a U.S. Army major general in World War II who led American forces in the Pacific, including during the New Georgia Campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John H. Hester canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12198066 — 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: John H. Hester Context triple: [New Georgia Campaign, commanderAllied, John H. Hester]
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A.
John R. Hodge
John R. Hodge was a U.S. Army general who led American occupation forces in southern Korea after World War II and later held senior commands in the postwar U.S. military.
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B.
Turlington W. Harvey
Turlington W. Harvey was an early landowner and developer whose name was given to the city of Harvey, Illinois.
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C.
David Huddleston
David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
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D.
James J. Hartnett
James J. Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
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E.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
- 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: John H. Hester Target entity description: John H. Hester was a U.S. Army major general in World War II who led American forces in the Pacific, including during the New Georgia Campaign.
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A.
John R. Hodge
John R. Hodge was a U.S. Army general who led American occupation forces in southern Korea after World War II and later held senior commands in the postwar U.S. military.
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B.
Turlington W. Harvey
Turlington W. Harvey was an early landowner and developer whose name was given to the city of Harvey, Illinois.
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C.
David Huddleston
David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
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D.
James J. Hartnett
James J. Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
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E.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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human ⓘ major general ⓘ military personnel of World War II ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableCampaign | New Georgia Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCommand | American forces in the New Georgia Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| rank | major general ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Pacific Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John H. Hester Description of subject: John H. Hester was a U.S. Army major general in World War II who led American forces in the Pacific, including during the New Georgia Campaign.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.