William Rosecrans
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William Rosecrans was a prominent Union general during the American Civil War, noted for his early successes in the Western Theater before suffering a major setback at the Battle of Chickamauga.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William S. Rosecrans | 11 |
| Major General William S. Rosecrans | 2 |
| Rosecrans | 2 |
| William Rosecrans canonical | 2 |
| William Starke Rosecrans | 2 |
| Major General William Rosecrans | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3002141 — 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: William Rosecrans Context triple: [Battle of Chickamauga, commander, William Rosecrans]
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A.
Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his cautious leadership in the Western Theater and his controversial role in several key campaigns.
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B.
George H. Thomas
George H. Thomas was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, renowned for his steadfast leadership and key victories in the Western Theater.
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C.
Henry W. Halleck
Henry W. Halleck was a prominent Union Army general and military administrator during the American Civil War, known for his role as general-in-chief and later chief of staff to Ulysses S. Grant.
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D.
Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading federal forces in the war’s first major land battle and later serving in various departmental commands.
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E.
Lucius Buckner
Lucius Buckner is a notable individual associated with the Buckner family name, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that surname.
- 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: William Rosecrans Target entity description: William Rosecrans was a prominent Union general during the American Civil War, noted for his early successes in the Western Theater before suffering a major setback at the Battle of Chickamauga.
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A.
Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his cautious leadership in the Western Theater and his controversial role in several key campaigns.
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B.
George H. Thomas
George H. Thomas was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, renowned for his steadfast leadership and key victories in the Western Theater.
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C.
Henry W. Halleck
Henry W. Halleck was a prominent Union Army general and military administrator during the American Civil War, known for his role as general-in-chief and later chief of staff to Ulysses S. Grant.
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D.
Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for leading federal forces in the war’s first major land battle and later serving in various departmental commands.
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E.
Lucius Buckner
Lucius Buckner is a notable individual associated with the Buckner family name, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William Rosecrans Description of subject: William Rosecrans was a prominent Union general during the American Civil War, noted for his early successes in the Western Theater before suffering a major setback at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Major General William Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
subject surface form:
Joshua W. Sill
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
Major General William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William Starke Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William S. Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
William Starke Rosecrans
this entity surface form:
Rosecrans
subject surface form:
Gettysburg of the West
this entity surface form:
Major General William S. Rosecrans