Edward Wolfe
E166094
Edward Wolfe was a British army officer of the early 18th century, best known as the father of General James Wolfe, the victor of the Battle of Quebec.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Wolfe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T886408 — 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: Edward Wolfe Context triple: [James Wolfe, father, Edward Wolfe]
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A.
Edward Leister
Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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B.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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C.
Francis Griffin
Francis Griffin is a recurring character on the animated television series "Family Guy," known as Peter Griffin's stern, devoutly Catholic father.
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D.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
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E.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
- 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: Edward Wolfe Target entity description: Edward Wolfe was a British army officer of the early 18th century, best known as the father of General James Wolfe, the victor of the Battle of Quebec.
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A.
Edward Leister
Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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B.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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C.
Francis Griffin
Francis Griffin is a recurring character on the animated television series "Family Guy," known as Peter Griffin's stern, devoutly Catholic father.
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D.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
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E.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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British Army officer ⓘ battle ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child | James Wolfe ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of General James Wolfe
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victory at the Battle of Quebec ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in the British Army in the early 18th century ⓘ |
| occupation | army officer ⓘ |
| parent | Edward Wolfe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1759 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Edward Wolfe Description of subject: Edward Wolfe was a British army officer of the early 18th century, best known as the father of General James Wolfe, the victor of the Battle of Quebec.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Wolfe