Edmund P. Gaines
E258564
Edmund P. Gaines was a prominent U.S. Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his leadership in frontier conflicts and the War of 1812.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edmund P. Gaines canonical | 6 |
| Edmund Pendleton Gaines | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2170099 — 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: Edmund P. Gaines Context triple: [First Seminole War, commander, Edmund P. Gaines]
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A.
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.
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B.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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C.
Hinton Battle
Hinton Battle is an American actor, singer, and three-time Tony Award–winning Broadway dancer known for his dynamic performances in musical theatre.
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D.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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E.
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American lawyer, politician, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1911 until his death in 1916.
- 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: Edmund P. Gaines Target entity description: Edmund P. Gaines was a prominent U.S. Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his leadership in frontier conflicts and the War of 1812.
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A.
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.
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B.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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C.
Hinton Battle
Hinton Battle is an American actor, singer, and three-time Tony Award–winning Broadway dancer known for his dynamic performances in musical theatre.
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D.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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E.
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Joseph Rucker Lamar was an American lawyer, politician, and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1911 until his death in 1916.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Edmund P. Gaines Description of subject: Edmund P. Gaines was a prominent U.S. Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his leadership in frontier conflicts and the War of 1812.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edmund Pendleton Gaines
subject surface form:
Gainesville, Georgia