Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Bolivar Buckner | 7 |
| Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. canonical | 3 |
| Simon B. Buckner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T274675 — 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: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. Context triple: [Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., father, Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.]
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A.
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.
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B.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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C.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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D.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
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E.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
- 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: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. Target entity description: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
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A.
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.
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B.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
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C.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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D.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
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E.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Confederate States Army general ⓘ governor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Confederate States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States of America (before secession)
|
| birthDate | 1823-04-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Hart County, Kentucky
ⓘ
Kentucky ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Frankfort Cemetery
ⓘ
Frankfort, Kentucky ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1914-01-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Hart County, Kentucky
ⓘ
Kentucky ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Buckner ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon ⓘ |
| heldRank |
brigadier general (Confederate States Army)
ⓘ
Lieutenant General (Confederate States Army) ⓘ
surface form:
lieutenant general (Confederate States Army)
major general (Confederate States Army) ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
General
ⓘ
Governor ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| middleName |
Simón Bolívar
ⓘ
surface form:
Bolivar
|
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service as Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War
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tenure as 30th Governor of Kentucky ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Fort Donelson campaign
ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Fort Donelson
|
| positionHeld |
30th Governor of Kentucky
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Confederate general officer ⓘ Governor of Kentucky ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence | Kentucky ⓘ |
| servedIn |
United States Army
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Army (pre–Civil War)
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Delia Hayes Claiborne
ⓘ
Mary Jane Kingsbury ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo |
Fort Donelson campaign
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surface form:
Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. Description of subject: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner
subject surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner
subject surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner
this entity surface form:
Simon B. Buckner
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner
this entity surface form:
Simon Bolivar Buckner