George G. Meade
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George G. Meade was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading the Army of the Potomac to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George G. Meade canonical | 38 |
| Major General George G. Meade | 4 |
| George Gordon Meade | 2 |
| George Meade | 1 |
| Major General George Gordon Meade | 1 |
| Union General George Gordon Meade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T982416 — 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: George G. Meade Context triple: [Battle of Gettysburg, commandedBy, George G. Meade]
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A.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
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B.
Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War who later became Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars and Reconstruction era.
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C.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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D.
J.E.B. Stuart
J.E.B. Stuart was a famed Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, renowned for his bold reconnaissance and raiding operations.
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E.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
- 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: George G. Meade Target entity description: George G. Meade was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading the Army of the Potomac to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
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B.
Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War who later became Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars and Reconstruction era.
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C.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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D.
J.E.B. Stuart
J.E.B. Stuart was a famed Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, renowned for his bold reconnaissance and raiding operations.
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E.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: George G. Meade Description of subject: George G. Meade was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading the Army of the Potomac to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Gettysburg
subject surface form:
Battle of Gettysburg
this entity surface form:
Major General George G. Meade
this entity surface form:
George Gordon Meade
this entity surface form:
Union General George Gordon Meade
this entity surface form:
Major General George G. Meade
this entity surface form:
George Gordon Meade
this entity surface form:
Major General George G. Meade
this entity surface form:
Major General George G. Meade
this entity surface form:
Major General George Gordon Meade
this entity surface form:
George Meade