Custer
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Custer is a surname most famously associated with George Armstrong Custer, the U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Custer canonical | 11 |
| Custer of the West | 2 |
| Boston Custer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5655944 — 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: Custer Context triple: [George Armstrong Custer, familyName, Custer]
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A.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud was a prominent Oglala Lakota (Sioux) war leader and statesman best known for successfully leading resistance against U.S. military expansion during Red Cloud’s War in the late 1860s.
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B.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was a renowned Oglala Lakota war leader known for his role in resisting U.S. expansion, including his leadership at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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C.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is a famous Parisian cabaret known for its avant-garde, artistically choreographed nude performances and distinctive use of lighting and staging.
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D.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known as Neil Young’s longtime, hard-edged backing group on many of his most acclaimed albums and tours.
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E.
Fetterman
Fetterman is a surname most prominently associated with John Fetterman, the American politician and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
- 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: Custer Target entity description: Custer is a surname most famously associated with George Armstrong Custer, the U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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A.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud was a prominent Oglala Lakota (Sioux) war leader and statesman best known for successfully leading resistance against U.S. military expansion during Red Cloud’s War in the late 1860s.
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B.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is a famous Parisian cabaret known for its avant-garde, artistically choreographed nude performances and distinctive use of lighting and staging.
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C.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was a renowned Oglala Lakota war leader known for his role in resisting U.S. expansion, including his leadership at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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D.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known as Neil Young’s longtime, hard-edged backing group on many of his most acclaimed albums and tours.
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E.
Fetterman
Fetterman is a surname most prominently associated with John Fetterman, the American politician and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of the Little Bighorn ⓘ |
| associatedWithPersonRole |
U.S. Army officer
ⓘ
cavalry commander ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation |
American Civil War history
ⓘ
American Old West ⓘ
linked to:
Old West
Indian Wars in the United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States–Native American wars
|
| etymologicalOrigin | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| hasToponymicUse |
Custer County, Colorado
ⓘ
Custer County, Montana ⓘ Custer County, South Dakota ⓘ Custer National Forest ⓘ Custer State Park ⓘ Custer, Michigan ⓘ Custer, South Dakota ⓘ Custer, Washington ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Kuster
ⓘ
Küster ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Boston Custer
ⓘ
linked to:
Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer ⓘ George Armstrong Custer ⓘ Thomas Custer ⓘ
linked to:
George Armstrong Custer
|
| usedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
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: Custer Description of subject: Custer is a surname most famously associated with George Armstrong Custer, the U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Custer
linked to: Custer
subject linked to:
George
linked to: Custer
subject linked to:
Slipknot album “.5: The Gray Chapter”
subject linked to:
Slipknot album “.5: The Gray Chapter”