Old Tige
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Old Tige was the nickname of William L. Cabell, a Confederate general who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Tige canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2182266 — 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: Old Tige Context triple: [William L. Cabell, nickname, Old Tige]
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A.
The Fox
The Fox is a film featuring Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comedian and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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B.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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C.
Growling Tigers
The Growling Tigers are the varsity athletic teams representing the University of Santo Tomas in collegiate sports in the Philippines.
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D.
Le Blaireau
Le Blaireau is the famous nickname of Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist and multiple Tour de France winner.
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E.
Cane
Cane is a groundbreaking 1923 modernist work by Jean Toomer that blends poetry, prose, and drama to depict African American life in the rural South and urban North, and is considered a seminal text of the Harlem Renaissance.
- 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: Old Tige Target entity description: Old Tige was the nickname of William L. Cabell, a Confederate general who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
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A.
The Fox
The Fox is a film featuring Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comedian and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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B.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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C.
Growling Tigers
The Growling Tigers are the varsity athletic teams representing the University of Santo Tomas in collegiate sports in the Philippines.
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D.
Le Blaireau
Le Blaireau is the famous nickname of Bernard Hinault, the legendary French cyclist and multiple Tour de France winner.
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E.
Cane
Cane is a groundbreaking 1923 modernist work by Jean Toomer that blends poetry, prose, and drama to depict African American life in the rural South and urban North, and is considered a seminal text of the Harlem Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
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nickname ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Confederate States Army
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Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| country | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Old Tige ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
American Civil War
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post–Civil War civic leadership in Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
American Civil War
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Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the nickname of Confederate general William L. Cabell
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postwar civic leadership in Dallas, Texas ⓘ service as a Confederate general ⓘ serving as mayor of Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| occupation |
civic leader
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military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalRole | mayor of Dallas ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mayor of Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| realName | William L. Cabell ⓘ |
| refersTo | William L. Cabell ⓘ |
| residence | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
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: Old Tige Description of subject: Old Tige was the nickname of William L. Cabell, a Confederate general who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and mayor of Dallas, Texas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William L. Cabell