Gideon Pillow
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Gideon Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and major general in the Mexican–American and Civil Wars, known for both his battlefield role and disputes over credit for military victories.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gideon Johnson Pillow | 2 |
| Gideon Pillow canonical | 1 |
| Mary Elizabeth Martin Pillow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2806035 — 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.
Target entity: Gideon Pillow Context triple: [Battle of Chapultepec, commander, Gideon Pillow]
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Gideon
Gideon is a 1980 country concept album by Kenny Rogers that tells a cohesive narrative through its songs and features the hit single "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer."
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Gideon
Gideon is the surname of Clarence Earl Gideon, the American whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case established the right to legal counsel for criminal defendants unable to afford an attorney.
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Gideon
Gideon is a biblical judge and military leader in the Hebrew Bible known for delivering Israel from Midianite oppression and for his testing of God with the fleece.
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Penniman
Penniman is the surname of rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whose full name was Richard Wayne Penniman.
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Gideon Pitts Jr.
Gideon Pitts Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as a member of the Pitts family of Honeoye, New York, and a relative of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white abolitionist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Gideon Pillow Target entity description: Gideon Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and major general in the Mexican–American and Civil Wars, known for both his battlefield role and disputes over credit for military victories.
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A.
Gideon
Gideon is a 1980 country concept album by Kenny Rogers that tells a cohesive narrative through its songs and features the hit single "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer."
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B.
Gideon
Gideon is the surname of Clarence Earl Gideon, the American whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case established the right to legal counsel for criminal defendants unable to afford an attorney.
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C.
Gideon
Gideon is a biblical judge and military leader in the Hebrew Bible known for delivering Israel from Midianite oppression and for his testing of God with the fleece.
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D.
Penniman
Penniman is the surname of rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whose full name was Richard Wayne Penniman.
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E.
Gideon Pitts Jr.
Gideon Pitts Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as a member of the Pitts family of Honeoye, New York, and a relative of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white abolitionist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Confederate States Army general ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| appointedBy | James K. Polk ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Pillow family cemetery, Columbia, Tennessee, United States
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surface form:
Pillow family cemetery, Tennessee
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| closeAssociateOf | James K. Polk ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
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Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1806-06-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1878-10-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Nashville
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| familyName | Pillow ⓘ |
| givenName | Gideon ⓘ |
| heldRankDuringConflict | Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| knownFor |
controversial claims of credit for military victories
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role in the surrender controversy at Fort Donelson ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Army
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United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
controversy over credit for victories in the Mexican–American War
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dispute with Winfield Scott ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service in the American Civil War
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service in the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Cerro Gordo
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Battle of Chapultepec ⓘ Battle of Churubusco ⓘ Battle of Contreras ⓘ Battle of Fort Donelson ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Williamson County, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
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near Columbia, Tennessee ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Phillowsville, Tennessee
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near Columbia, Tennessee ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Tennessee ⓘ |
| residence |
Maury County, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
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Phillowsville, Tennessee ⓘ |
| servedAs | brigadier general in the United States Volunteers ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Pillow
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surface form:
Mary Elizabeth Martin Pillow
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| workedAs | planter ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Gideon Pillow Description of subject: Gideon Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and major general in the Mexican–American and Civil Wars, known for both his battlefield role and disputes over credit for military victories.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.