John Stark
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John Stark was an American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire, best known for his leadership at the Battle of Bennington and for inspiring the state motto "Live Free or Die."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Stark canonical | 16 |
| General John Stark | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167602 — 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: John Stark Context triple: [Siege of Boston, notableParticipant, John Stark]
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A.
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.
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B.
William Howe
William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of 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: John Stark Target entity description: John Stark was an American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire, best known for his leadership at the Battle of Bennington and for inspiring the state motto "Live Free or Die."
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A.
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.
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B.
William Howe
William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: John Stark Description of subject: John Stark was an American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire, best known for his leadership at the Battle of Bennington and for inspiring the state motto "Live Free or Die."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Stark
this entity surface form:
General John Stark
this entity surface form:
General John Stark
this entity surface form:
General John Stark