John F. Reynolds
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John F. Reynolds was a prominent Union Army major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership and death on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John F. Reynolds canonical | 21 |
| Major General John F. Reynolds | 3 |
| Union Major General John F. Reynolds | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1595546 — 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: John F. Reynolds Context triple: [Battle of Gettysburg, hasCommander, John F. Reynolds]
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A.
George G. Meade
George G. Meade was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading the Army of the Potomac to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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B.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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C.
Richard H. Anderson
Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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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.
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.
- 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: John F. Reynolds Target entity description: John F. Reynolds was a prominent Union Army major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership and death on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
George G. Meade
George G. Meade was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading the Army of the Potomac to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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B.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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C.
Richard H. Anderson
Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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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.
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.
- 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: John F. Reynolds Description of subject: John F. Reynolds was a prominent Union Army major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership and death on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John F. Reynolds
linked to: John F. Reynolds
subject linked to:
Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Reynolds Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park
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commemorates
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Major General John F. Reynolds
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linked to: John F. Reynolds
Reynolds Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park
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honors
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Union Major General John F. Reynolds
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linked to: John F. Reynolds