Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, educator, and humorist best known for his influential Southern sketches and for serving as president of several colleges, including Emory College.
All labels observed (1)
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| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12247549 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Context triple: [Longstreet family, notableMember, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet]
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A.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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B.
Michael Longstreet
Michael Longstreet is one of the central, increasingly volatile parents in the dark comedy film "Carnage," portrayed by John C. Reilly.
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C.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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D.
Daniel Harvey Hill
Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his service in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his postwar career as an educator and writer.
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E.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Target entity description: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, educator, and humorist best known for his influential Southern sketches and for serving as president of several colleges, including Emory College.
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A.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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B.
Michael Longstreet
Michael Longstreet is one of the central, increasingly volatile parents in the dark comedy film "Carnage," portrayed by John C. Reilly.
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C.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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D.
Daniel Harvey Hill
Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his service in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his postwar career as an educator and writer.
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E.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
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human ⓘ humorist ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1790-09-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1870-09-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
South Carolina College
NERFINISHED
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Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Longstreet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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law ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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local color writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Augustus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Southern literature ⓘ |
| name | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential Southern sketches
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leadership of multiple American colleges ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Georgia Scenes
NERFINISHED
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Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
college president
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educator ⓘ humorist ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Augusta, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oxford, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of Centenary College of Louisiana
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president of Emory College ⓘ president of the University of Mississippi ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| spouse | Frances Eliza Parke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Georgia
NERFINISHED
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Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle | regional sketch ⓘ |
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: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Description of subject: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was a 19th-century American lawyer, judge, educator, and humorist best known for his influential Southern sketches and for serving as president of several colleges, including Emory College.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.