James Robertson Arnold
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James Robertson Arnold was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and the son of Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy Shippen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Robertson Arnold canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478311 — 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: James Robertson Arnold Context triple: [Peggy Shippen, child, James Robertson Arnold]
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A.
Robert James Ritchie
Robert James Ritchie is an American musician, singer, and rapper best known by his stage name Kid Rock, blending rock, hip hop, and country in his work.
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B.
James Arnold
James Arnold was a 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.
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C.
Alan Bullock
Alan Bullock was a prominent British historian and biographer, best known for his influential works on Adolf Hitler and 20th-century European history.
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D.
Robert Little
Robert Little was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the highest-scoring pilots in British service.
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E.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
- 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: James Robertson Arnold Target entity description: James Robertson Arnold was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and the son of Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy Shippen.
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A.
Robert James Ritchie
Robert James Ritchie is an American musician, singer, and rapper best known by his stage name Kid Rock, blending rock, hip hop, and country in his work.
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B.
James Arnold
James Arnold was a 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.
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C.
Alan Bullock
Alan Bullock was a prominent British historian and biographer, best known for his influential works on Adolf Hitler and 20th-century European history.
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D.
Robert Little
Robert Little was a distinguished Australian fighter ace of World War I who became one of the highest-scoring pilots in British service.
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E.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Arnold ⓘ |
| father | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| mother | Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Arnold family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a son of Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen
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service as a U.S. Army officer in the 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| relative |
Benedict Arnold
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Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: James Robertson Arnold Description of subject: James Robertson Arnold was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and the son of Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his wife Peggy Shippen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.