Edmund Kirby Smith
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Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Kirby Smith canonical | 10 |
| E. Kirby Smith | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2618282 — 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: Edmund Kirby Smith Context triple: [Lieutenant General (Confederate States Army), notableHolder, Edmund Kirby Smith]
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A.
Gideon J. Pillow
Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
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B.
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
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C.
Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
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D.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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E.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the 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: Edmund Kirby Smith Target entity description: Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
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A.
Gideon J. Pillow
Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
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B.
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
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C.
Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
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D.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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E.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Edmund Kirby Smith Description of subject: Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
E. Kirby Smith