Confederate general Henry L. Benning
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Henry L. Benning was a Confederate general and former Georgia Supreme Court justice whose staunch pro-slavery advocacy and Civil War service later led to a major U.S. Army post being named in his honor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brigadier General Henry L. Benning | 2 |
| Confederate general Henry L. Benning canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4908480 — 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: Confederate general Henry L. Benning Context triple: [Fort Benning, namedAfter, Confederate general Henry L. Benning]
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Confederate Brigadier General Robert Toombs
Confederate Brigadier General Robert Toombs was a prominent Southern politician and military leader who served as the first Confederate Secretary of State before commanding troops in key Civil War battles.
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B.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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C.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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D.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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E.
Richard S. Ewell
Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s 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: Confederate general Henry L. Benning Target entity description: Henry L. Benning was a Confederate general and former Georgia Supreme Court justice whose staunch pro-slavery advocacy and Civil War service later led to a major U.S. Army post being named in his honor.
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A.
Confederate Brigadier General Robert Toombs
Confederate Brigadier General Robert Toombs was a prominent Southern politician and military leader who served as the first Confederate Secretary of State before commanding troops in key Civil War battles.
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B.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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C.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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D.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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E.
Richard S. Ewell
Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
ⓘ
Georgia Supreme Court justice ⓘ United States Army post ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Confederate States of America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| commanded | Benning's Brigade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1814-04-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1875-07-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Franklin College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Benning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Henry Lewis Benning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | Fort Benning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | pro-slavery ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Supreme Court of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henry L. Benning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as a Confederate general in the American Civil War
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staunch pro-slavery advocacy ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 10 ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
judge ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Antietam NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Chickamauga NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Overland Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Columbia County, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Columbus, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
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justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Confederate States of America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Columbus, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Howard Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported | secession of Southern states ⓘ |
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: Confederate general Henry L. Benning Description of subject: Henry L. Benning was a Confederate general and former Georgia Supreme Court justice whose staunch pro-slavery advocacy and Civil War service later led to a major U.S. Army post being named in his honor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fighting at Devil’s Den
this entity surface form:
Brigadier General Henry L. Benning
subject surface form:
Fighting at Devil’s Den
this entity surface form:
Brigadier General Henry L. Benning