Ephraim Kirby Smith
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Ephraim Kirby Smith was a 19th-century American military officer and the brother of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ephraim Kirby Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13909743 — 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: Ephraim Kirby Smith Context triple: [Edmund Kirby Smith, hadSibling, Ephraim Kirby Smith]
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A.
Lucius E. Polk
Lucius E. Polk was a 19th-century American Confederate officer, planter, and politician from Tennessee, and a member of the prominent Polk family.
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B.
Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
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C.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
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D.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
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E.
Frederick Quitman
Frederick Quitman was the son of prominent American politician and Mexican–American War general John A. Quitman.
- 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: Ephraim Kirby Smith Target entity description: Ephraim Kirby Smith was a 19th-century American military officer and the brother of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
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A.
Lucius E. Polk
Lucius E. Polk was a 19th-century American Confederate officer, planter, and politician from Tennessee, and a member of the prominent Polk family.
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B.
Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
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C.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
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D.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
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E.
Frederick Quitman
Frederick Quitman was the son of prominent American politician and Mexican–American War general John A. Quitman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.