Patrick E. Connor
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Patrick E. Connor was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for leading military campaigns against Native American tribes on the Great Plains.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Edward Connor | 2 |
| Patrick E. Connor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2242973 — 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: Patrick E. Connor Context triple: [Red Cloud's War, hasCommander, Patrick E. Connor]
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A.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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B.
William X. O'Brien
William X. O'Brien was an influential Irish trade unionist and political organizer who played a key role in shaping Ireland’s labor movement and early 20th-century politics.
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C.
James E. Casey
James E. Casey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding United Parcel Service (UPS) and shaping it into a global package delivery giant.
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D.
Cornelius McGillicuddy
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, was a legendary American baseball manager and team owner who led the Philadelphia Athletics for five decades and became one of the sport’s most iconic figures.
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E.
John McGlynn
John McGlynn is a Scottish football manager best known for his successful spells in charge of Raith Rovers.
- 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: Patrick E. Connor Target entity description: Patrick E. Connor was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for leading military campaigns against Native American tribes on the Great Plains.
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A.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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B.
William X. O'Brien
William X. O'Brien was an influential Irish trade unionist and political organizer who played a key role in shaping Ireland’s labor movement and early 20th-century politics.
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C.
James E. Casey
James E. Casey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding United Parcel Service (UPS) and shaping it into a global package delivery giant.
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D.
Cornelius McGillicuddy
Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack, was a legendary American baseball manager and team owner who led the Philadelphia Athletics for five decades and became one of the sport’s most iconic figures.
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E.
John McGlynn
John McGlynn is a Scottish football manager best known for his successful spells in charge of Raith Rovers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
United States–Native American wars
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surface form:
Indian Wars
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Connor ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| hasRole | commander of volunteer forces in the West during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Edward ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brevet major general
ⓘ
brigadier general ⓘ |
| name |
Patrick E. Connor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Patrick Edward Connor
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| notableEvent |
command of California Volunteers in the Department of the Pacific
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operations against Shoshone and other Native American groups ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Bear River Massacre
ⓘ
Powder River Expedition ⓘ harsh policies toward Native American tribes ⓘ military campaigns against Native American tribes on the Great Plains ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Utah War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Utah Territory ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Patrick E. Connor Description of subject: Patrick E. Connor was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for leading military campaigns against Native American tribes on the Great Plains.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Patrick Edward Connor
this entity surface form:
Patrick Edward Connor