James Wilkinson
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James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Wilkinson canonical | 9 |
| General James Wilkinson | 1 |
| Major General James Wilkinson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1444291 — 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: James Wilkinson Context triple: [Wilkinson, hasNotableBearer, James Wilkinson]
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A.
James McHenry
James McHenry was an American statesman, physician, Revolutionary War surgeon, and U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
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B.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
William Jenkins Worth
William Jenkins Worth was a 19th-century United States Army general noted for his service in the Mexican–American War and other conflicts.
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E.
Robert Macomb
Robert Macomb was a 19th-century New York landowner and entrepreneur after whom the Macombs Dam Bridge in New York City is named.
- 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: James Wilkinson Target entity description: James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
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A.
James McHenry
James McHenry was an American statesman, physician, Revolutionary War surgeon, and U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
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B.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
William Jenkins Worth
William Jenkins Worth was a 19th-century United States Army general noted for his service in the Mexican–American War and other conflicts.
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E.
Robert Macomb
Robert Macomb was a 19th-century New York landowner and entrepreneur after whom the Macombs Dam Bridge in New York City is named.
- 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: James Wilkinson Description of subject: James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Wilkinson
subject linked to:
Wilkinson County
linked to: James Wilkinson
subject linked to:
Agent 13
subject linked to:
Agent 13