Major General Paul W. Baade
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Major General Paul W. Baade was a senior U.S. Army officer who led American forces in key European campaigns during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major General Paul W. Baade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5180379 — 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: Major General Paul W. Baade Context triple: [35th Infantry Division, worldWarIICommander, Major General Paul W. Baade]
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Robert L. Ghormley
Robert L. Ghormley was a U.S. Navy admiral during World War II who played a key leadership role in the early Pacific campaigns, including the Guadalcanal operation.
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B.
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Albert C. Wedemeyer was a U.S. Army general and strategic planner in World War II, best known for his leadership roles in the China-Burma-India theater and his influence on Allied war strategy.
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C.
Herbert L. Porter
Herbert L. Porter was a political operative who served as a key official in President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and later became involved in the Watergate investigations.
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D.
W. W. Ambrose
W. W. Ambrose was an architect known for designing the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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E.
Commander Ernest Krause
Commander Ernest Krause is the fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the World War II naval drama film "Greyhound," where he leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic while under attack from German U-boats.
- 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: Major General Paul W. Baade Target entity description: Major General Paul W. Baade was a senior U.S. Army officer who led American forces in key European campaigns during World War II.
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A.
Robert L. Ghormley
Robert L. Ghormley was a U.S. Navy admiral during World War II who played a key leadership role in the early Pacific campaigns, including the Guadalcanal operation.
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B.
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Albert C. Wedemeyer was a U.S. Army general and strategic planner in World War II, best known for his leadership roles in the China-Burma-India theater and his influence on Allied war strategy.
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C.
Herbert L. Porter
Herbert L. Porter was a political operative who served as a key official in President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and later became involved in the Watergate investigations.
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D.
W. W. Ambrose
W. W. Ambrose was an architect known for designing the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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E.
Commander Ernest Krause
Commander Ernest Krause is the fictional U.S. Navy officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the World War II naval drama film "Greyhound," where he leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic while under attack from German U-boats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| awardReceived |
Bronze Star Medal
ⓘ
Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ
linked to:
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| commanded | 35th Infantry Division ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | military leadership ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
colonel ⓘ major general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of 35th Infantry Division in World War II
ⓘ
leadership in European campaigns during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Ardennes-Alsace campaign
ⓘ
linked to:
Alsace campaign
Central Europe campaign ⓘ Normandy campaign ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Normandy
Northern France campaign ⓘ
linked to:
North-West Europe campaign
Rhineland campaign ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Army officer service number (specific number not recalled) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | European Theater of Operations ⓘ |
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: Major General Paul W. Baade Description of subject: Major General Paul W. Baade was a senior U.S. Army officer who led American forces in key European campaigns during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
U.S. 35th Infantry Division