Nathaniel Bacon
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Nathaniel Bacon was a 17th-century Virginia planter best known for leading a major armed uprising against the colonial government in 1676.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathaniel Bacon canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2348017 — 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: Nathaniel Bacon Context triple: [Bacon's Rebellion, hasLeader, Nathaniel Bacon]
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A.
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks was an African and Native American dockworker widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first casualty of the American Revolution.
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B.
James Fort
James Fort was the early 17th-century English defensive settlement that formed the core of what became Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America.
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C.
Francis Nicholson
Francis Nicholson was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as governor in several American colonies and led key campaigns during the early 18th-century imperial conflicts in North America.
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D.
Thomas Savage
Thomas Savage was an American novelist best known for his psychologically rich Western fiction, particularly the novel "The Power of the Dog."
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E.
Israel Putnam
Israel Putnam was a prominent American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill and his role in the early Continental Army.
- 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: Nathaniel Bacon Target entity description: Nathaniel Bacon was a 17th-century Virginia planter best known for leading a major armed uprising against the colonial government in 1676.
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A.
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks was an African and Native American dockworker widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first casualty of the American Revolution.
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B.
James Fort
James Fort was the early 17th-century English defensive settlement that formed the core of what became Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America.
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C.
Francis Nicholson
Francis Nicholson was a British colonial administrator and military officer who served as governor in several American colonies and led key campaigns during the early 18th-century imperial conflicts in North America.
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D.
Thomas Savage
Thomas Savage was an American novelist best known for his psychologically rich Western fiction, particularly the novel "The Power of the Dog."
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E.
Israel Putnam
Israel Putnam was a prominent American Revolutionary War general known for his leadership at the Battle of Bunker Hill and his role in the early Continental Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
planter ⓘ rebel leader ⓘ |
| activity |
armed uprising against colonial authorities
ⓘ
raids against Native American groups ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1647 ⓘ |
| conflict | Bacon's Rebellion ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| deathCause | dysentery ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Virginia Colony
|
| deathYear | 1676 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Bacon ⓘ |
| givenName | Nathaniel ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| leaderOf | Bacon's Rebellion ⓘ |
| legacy |
precursor to later American revolutionary sentiment
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symbol of early colonial resistance to royal authority ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| movement | colonial American frontier resistance ⓘ |
| notableFor | Bacon's Rebellion ⓘ |
| occupation | planter ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Governor William Berkeley
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colonial government of Virginia ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Colonial Virginia
ⓘ
history of the Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| politicalStance |
anti-elite colonial politics
ⓘ
frontier settler advocacy ⓘ |
| residence |
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
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surface form:
Virginia Colony
|
| significantEvent | burning of Jamestown in 1676 ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 1676 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nathaniel Bacon Description of subject: Nathaniel Bacon was a 17th-century Virginia planter best known for leading a major armed uprising against the colonial government in 1676.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Berkeley