James Clinton
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James Clinton was an American Revolutionary War officer and Continental Army general who played a key role in frontier campaigns against British and Native American forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Clinton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5727287 — 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: James Clinton Context triple: [Sullivan Expedition, commander, James Clinton]
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A.
James Clinton
James Clinton is a relatively obscure individual who shares the common surname "Clinton" but is not widely recognized as a prominent historical or public figure.
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B.
George Clinton
George Clinton was an American Founding Father, longtime governor of New York, and one of the first vice presidents of the United States, serving under both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
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C.
George Clinton
George Clinton is an American musician, bandleader, and producer best known as the architect of the influential funk collectives Parliament and Funkadelic, whose innovative sound has shaped generations of hip-hop, R&B, and electronic artists.
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D.
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
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E.
Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins was an American statesman who served as the fourth governor of New York and the sixth vice president of the United States under James Monroe.
- 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: James Clinton Target entity description: James Clinton was an American Revolutionary War officer and Continental Army general who played a key role in frontier campaigns against British and Native American forces.
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A.
James Clinton
James Clinton is a relatively obscure individual who shares the common surname "Clinton" but is not widely recognized as a prominent historical or public figure.
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B.
George Clinton
George Clinton was an American Founding Father, longtime governor of New York, and one of the first vice presidents of the United States, serving under both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
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C.
George Clinton
George Clinton is an American musician, bandleader, and producer best known as the architect of the influential funk collectives Parliament and Funkadelic, whose innovative sound has shaped generations of hip-hop, R&B, and electronic artists.
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D.
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
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E.
Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins was an American statesman who served as the fourth governor of New York and the sixth vice president of the United States under James Monroe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
frontier campaigns against British forces
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frontier campaigns against Native American forces ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in frontier campaigns during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | general in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| relative | George Clinton 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: James Clinton Description of subject: James Clinton was an American Revolutionary War officer and Continental Army general who played a key role in frontier campaigns against British and Native American forces.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.