Edward Beale
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Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Beale canonical | 1 |
| Edward Fitzgerald Beale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1474236 — 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 Beale Context triple: [Beale Street, namedAfter, Edward Beale]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
James Wilkinson
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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D.
Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen W. Kearny was a U.S. Army officer and frontier military leader best known for his role in the conquest of New Mexico and California during the Mexican–American War.
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E.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
- 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 Beale Target entity description: Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
James Wilkinson
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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D.
Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen W. Kearny was a U.S. Army officer and frontier military leader best known for his role in the conquest of New Mexico and California during the Mexican–American War.
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E.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
explorer
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frontiersman ⓘ human ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | American frontier era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
exploration
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frontier development ⓘ surveying ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
geographical surveying
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overland exploration ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading surveying expeditions
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mapping routes in the American West ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| movement | westward expansion of the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to the development of the American West
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surveying expeditions in the American West ⓘ |
| occupation |
explorer
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frontiersman ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| residence |
Old West
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surface form:
American West
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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 Beale Description of subject: Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edward Fitzgerald Beale