Nathaniel Lyon
E164480
Nathaniel Lyon was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, notable as the first Union general killed in combat during the conflict.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathaniel Lyon canonical | 31 |
| Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union general killed in the American Civil War | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1244904 — 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: Nathaniel Lyon Context triple: [Lyon County, Nevada, namedAfter, Nathaniel Lyon]
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A.
John J. Parker
John J. Parker was a prominent American judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was once a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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B.
John Nicholson
John Nicholson was a British Army officer in colonial India renowned for his fierce leadership and pivotal role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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D.
William Dawes
William Dawes was an architect known for his work on major British railway stations, including the design of Manchester Victoria.
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E.
William Dawes
William Dawes was an American patriot best known for his midnight ride on April 18, 1775, alongside Paul Revere, to warn colonial militias of approaching British troops at the outset of the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Nathaniel Lyon Target entity description: Nathaniel Lyon was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, notable as the first Union general killed in combat during the conflict.
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A.
John J. Parker
John J. Parker was a prominent American judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was once a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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B.
John Nicholson
John Nicholson was a British Army officer in colonial India renowned for his fierce leadership and pivotal role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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D.
William Dawes
William Dawes was an architect known for his work on major British railway stations, including the design of Manchester Victoria.
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E.
William Dawes
William Dawes was an American patriot best known for his midnight ride on April 18, 1775, alongside Paul Revere, to warn colonial militias of approaching British troops at the outset of the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Nathaniel Lyon Description of subject: Nathaniel Lyon was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, notable as the first Union general killed in combat during the conflict.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lyon County
subject linked to:
Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon
subject linked to:
Battle of Wilson’s Creek
Battle of Fort Scott (operations in Kansas–Missouri border region)
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Nathaniel Lyon
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subject linked to:
Lyon Monument in Eastford, Connecticut
subject linked to:
Lyon Monument in Eastford, Connecticut
subject linked to:
Lyon Monument in Eastford, Connecticut
subject linked to:
Oak Hills (Battle of Oak Hills)
Battle of Oak Hills
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notableFact
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Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union general killed in the American Civil War
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linked to: Nathaniel Lyon