Patrick Cleburne
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Cleburne canonical | 4 |
| Patrick R. Cleburne | 4 |
| Pat Cleburne | 1 |
| Patrick Ronayne Cleburne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051014 — 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: Patrick Cleburne Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Patrick Cleburne]
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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B.
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.
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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.
George Pickett
George Pickett was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, best known for leading the ill-fated infantry assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
- 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: Patrick Cleburne Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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B.
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.
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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.
George Pickett
George Pickett was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, best known for leading the ill-fated infantry assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
- 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: Patrick Cleburne Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
this entity surface form:
Patrick R. Cleburne
this entity surface form:
Patrick R. Cleburne
this entity surface form:
Patrick R. Cleburne
this entity surface form:
Patrick R. Cleburne
this entity surface form:
Pat Cleburne