Alexander McSween
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Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander McSween canonical | 7 |
| McSween | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3922745 — 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: Alexander McSween Context triple: [Lincoln Historic District, significantPerson, Alexander McSween]
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A.
William McSweeny
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
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B.
James Johnston
James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
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C.
James Fleming
James Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by various individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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E.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
- 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: Alexander McSween Target entity description: Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.
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A.
William McSweeny
William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
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B.
James Johnston
James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
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C.
James Fleming
James Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by various individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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E.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
19th century
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Lincoln County, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico Territory ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Lincoln Historic District ⓘ |
| conflict | economic and political rivalries in Lincoln County ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| era | American Old West ⓘ |
| familyName |
Alexander McSween
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
McSween
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| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | key participant in frontier conflicts in New Mexico ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn | development of law-and-order conflicts in Lincoln County ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | commemoration within the Lincoln Historic District ⓘ |
| hasRole | central figure in the Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| influenced | history of the Lincoln Historic District ⓘ |
| knownFor | legal and business activities in Lincoln County ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Lincoln County War ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Lincoln County, New Mexico
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history of the American frontier ⓘ |
| region |
southwestern United States
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surface form:
American Southwest
|
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: Alexander McSween Description of subject: Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lincoln, New Mexico
this entity surface form:
McSween