Alexander Macomb
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Alexander Macomb was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Army general who served as Commanding General of the Army and played key roles in conflicts such as the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Macomb canonical | 4 |
| Alexander Macomb Sr. | 1 |
| Alexander Macomb, Jr. | 1 |
| General Alexander Macomb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1789795 — 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: Alexander Macomb Context triple: [Second Seminole War, commander, Alexander Macomb]
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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.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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C.
George Whitmore
George Whitmore was an American climber best known as a member of the team that made the pioneering first ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan in 1958.
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D.
Amos Kendall
Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
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E.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
- 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: Alexander Macomb Target entity description: Alexander Macomb was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Army general who served as Commanding General of the Army and played key roles in conflicts such as the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars.
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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.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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C.
George Whitmore
George Whitmore was an American climber best known as a member of the team that made the pioneering first ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan in 1958.
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D.
Amos Kendall
Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
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E.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Alexander Macomb Description of subject: Alexander Macomb was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Army general who served as Commanding General of the Army and played key roles in conflicts such as the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander Macomb, Jr.
this entity surface form:
Alexander Macomb Sr.
this entity surface form:
General Alexander Macomb