Armistead
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Armistead is a surname most notably associated with Lewis Armistead, a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Armistead canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4726356 — 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: Armistead Context triple: [Lewis Armistead, familyName, Armistead]
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A.
Bayard
Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
Bayard
Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
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C.
Robert Hooks
Robert Hooks is an American actor, producer, and civil rights activist known for his pioneering roles in film, television, and theater, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Colonel John Barnwell
Colonel John Barnwell was a colonial military officer from South Carolina known for leading early 18th-century campaigns against Native American groups, including during the Tuscarora 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: Armistead Target entity description: Armistead is a surname most notably associated with Lewis Armistead, a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
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A.
Bayard
Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
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B.
Bayard
Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
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C.
Robert Hooks
Robert Hooks is an American actor, producer, and civil rights activist known for his pioneering roles in film, television, and theater, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Colonel John Barnwell
Colonel John Barnwell was a colonial military officer from South Carolina known for leading early 18th-century campaigns against Native American groups, including during the Tuscarora War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
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family name ⓘ military officer ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| birthCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| deathCause | wounds received in battle ⓘ |
| familyName | Armistead ⓘ |
| givenName | Lewis ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Lewis Armistead ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
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service as a Confederate general during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| rank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| usedAs |
surname in the United Kingdom
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surname in the United States ⓘ |
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: Armistead Description of subject: Armistead is a surname most notably associated with Lewis Armistead, a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.