Alexander P. Stewart
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Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander P. Stewart canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2618277 — 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 P. Stewart Context triple: [Lieutenant General (Confederate States Army), notableHolder, Alexander P. Stewart]
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A.
William A. Guthrie
William A. Guthrie was an American businessman best known for establishing the influential American Tobacco Company during the late 19th century.
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B.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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C.
James T. Grady
James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
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D.
William C. Thompson
William C. Thompson was an American cinematographer best known for his work on low-budget genre films, including several directed by Ed Wood.
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E.
William H. Stokes
William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
- 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 P. Stewart Target entity description: Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
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A.
William A. Guthrie
William A. Guthrie was an American businessman best known for establishing the influential American Tobacco Company during the late 19th century.
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B.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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C.
James T. Grady
James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
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D.
William C. Thompson
William C. Thompson was an American cinematographer best known for his work on low-budget genre films, including several directed by Ed Wood.
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E.
William H. Stokes
William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1821-10-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Rogersville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded | corps in the Army of Tennessee ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1908-08-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military science ⓘ |
| fullName | Alexander Peter Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1842 ⓘ |
| middleName | Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding a corps in the Confederate Army of Tennessee
ⓘ
service as a Confederate lieutenant general in the Western Theater ⓘ |
| occupation |
career army officer
ⓘ
military educator ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Atlanta Campaign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Chickamauga NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Shiloh NERFINISHED ⓘ Franklin–Nashville Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Biloxi, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Commissioner of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park ⓘ |
| postwarActivity |
college administrator
ⓘ
park commissioner ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| servedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Braxton Bragg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Bell Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph E. Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Harriet Billingslea Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Cumberland University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Western Theater of the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 P. Stewart Description of subject: Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.