brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)
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Irvin McDowell was a Union Army officer and early Civil War commander best known for leading Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| brigadier general (Irvin McDowell) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13364526 — 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: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell) Context triple: [Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, commanderRank, brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)]
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Major General Andrew A. Humphreys
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys was a Union Army officer and distinguished Civil War corps commander noted for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac.
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Brigadier General Strong Vincent
Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow
Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow was a young, hard-fighting Civil War officer known for his aggressive leadership in major battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg.
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D.
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
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E.
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 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: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell) Target entity description: Irvin McDowell was a Union Army officer and early Civil War commander best known for leading Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run.
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A.
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys
Major General Andrew A. Humphreys was a Union Army officer and distinguished Civil War corps commander noted for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac.
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B.
Brigadier General Strong Vincent
Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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C.
Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow
Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow was a young, hard-fighting Civil War officer known for his aggressive leadership in major battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg.
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D.
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
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E.
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell) Description of subject: Irvin McDowell was a Union Army officer and early Civil War commander best known for leading Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.