Charles Cornwallis
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Charles Cornwallis was a British Army general and colonial administrator best known for his pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Cornwallis canonical | 47 |
| Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 16 |
| Lord Cornwallis | 15 |
| Cornwallis | 5 |
| Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis | 4 |
| Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis | 1 |
| Lord Charles Cornwallis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T41970 — 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.
Target entity: Charles Cornwallis Context triple: [American Revolutionary War, commander, Charles Cornwallis]
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Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
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Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
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Captain Thomas Preston
Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
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Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was an American Revolutionary War general best known for defecting to the British and becoming synonymous with treason in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Charles Cornwallis Target entity description: Charles Cornwallis was a British Army general and colonial administrator best known for his pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
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A.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
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B.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
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D.
Captain Thomas Preston
Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
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E.
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was an American Revolutionary War general best known for defecting to the British and becoming synonymous with treason in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Charles Cornwallis Description of subject: Charles Cornwallis was a British Army general and colonial administrator best known for his pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.