David G. Perkins
E1025845
David G. Perkins is a retired United States Army general best known for his leadership in Iraq and his role in developing modern Army operational doctrine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David G. Perkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11850685 — 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: David G. Perkins Context triple: [7th Infantry Division, notableCommander, David G. Perkins]
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A.
Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
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B.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
David H. Brown
David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
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E.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
- 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: David G. Perkins Target entity description: David G. Perkins is a retired United States Army general best known for his leadership in Iraq and his role in developing modern Army operational doctrine.
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A.
Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
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B.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
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C.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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D.
David H. Brown
David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
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E.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army general
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Army Achievement Medal
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Army Commendation Medal ⓘ Army Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ Bronze Star Medal ⓘ Defense Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| conflict | Iraq War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
United States Army Command and General Staff College
ⓘ
linked to:
Army Command and General Staff College
United States Army War College ⓘ United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
combined arms operations
ⓘ
military doctrine ⓘ operational art ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | General ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | military strategist ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States Army officer corps
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Army officers
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
four-star general
ⓘ
general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of multi-domain operations
ⓘ
leadership in Iraq ⓘ senior leadership roles in the U.S. Army during the Global War on Terrorism ⓘ shaping U.S. Army doctrine in the early 21st century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to the Army Operating Concept
ⓘ
development of modern U.S. Army operational doctrine ⓘ |
| occupation |
army general
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander of Multi-National Division North in Iraq
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Commander of the 4th Infantry Division ⓘ Commander of the Combined Arms Center ⓘ Commanding General of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command ⓘ |
| retired | true ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | United States Army officer commissioning via the United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Fort Eustis
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Eustis, Virginia
Fort Leavenworth ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
|
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: David G. Perkins Description of subject: David G. Perkins is a retired United States Army general best known for his leadership in Iraq and his role in developing modern Army operational doctrine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hourglass Division