Nelson A. Miles
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Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nelson A. Miles canonical | 12 |
| General Nelson A. Miles | 3 |
| Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles | 1 |
| Colonel Nelson A. Miles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2130888 — 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: Nelson A. Miles Context triple: [Apache Wars, notableCommander, Nelson A. Miles]
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Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood was a U.S. Army officer and colonial administrator who served as a key military governor in American-occupied territories around the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
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C.
William R. Shafter
William R. Shafter was a U.S. Army general best known for leading American ground forces during the Cuban campaign of the Spanish–American War.
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Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading federal forces in the war’s first major land battle and later serving in various departmental commands.
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E.
G. R. Stilwell
G. R. Stilwell was a physicist known for co-conducting the Ives–Stilwell experiment, a key early test of special relativity’s time dilation and relativistic Doppler effect.
- 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: Nelson A. Miles Target entity description: Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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A.
Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood was a U.S. Army officer and colonial administrator who served as a key military governor in American-occupied territories around the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
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C.
William R. Shafter
William R. Shafter was a U.S. Army general best known for leading American ground forces during the Cuban campaign of the Spanish–American War.
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D.
Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading federal forces in the war’s first major land battle and later serving in various departmental commands.
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E.
G. R. Stilwell
G. R. Stilwell was a physicist known for co-conducting the Ives–Stilwell experiment, a key early test of special relativity’s time dilation and relativistic Doppler effect.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Nelson A. Miles Description of subject: Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
General Nelson A. Miles
this entity surface form:
Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles
this entity surface form:
General Nelson A. Miles
this entity surface form:
Colonel Nelson A. Miles
this entity surface form:
General Nelson A. Miles