Isaac Trimble
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Isaac Trimble was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles and his wounding during the assault at Gettysburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isaac Trimble canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5760202 — 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: Isaac Trimble Context triple: [Pickett’s Charge, commander, Isaac Trimble]
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A.
Benjamin Hardin Helm
Benjamin Hardin Helm was a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War and the brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln through his marriage to Emilie Todd Helm.
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B.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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C.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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D.
Robert A. Burnside
Robert A. Burnside is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Burnside, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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E.
Elkin Mathews
Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
- 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: Isaac Trimble Target entity description: Isaac Trimble was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles and his wounding during the assault at Gettysburg.
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A.
Benjamin Hardin Helm
Benjamin Hardin Helm was a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War and the brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln through his marriage to Emilie Todd Helm.
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B.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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C.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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D.
Robert A. Burnside
Robert A. Burnside is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Burnside, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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E.
Elkin Mathews
Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1802-05-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Culpeper County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Baltimore, Maryland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Green Mount Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedAt | Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedOn | 1863-07-03 ⓘ |
| commanded |
Trimble’s Brigade
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
a division in the Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| commissionedInto | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1888-01-02 ⓘ |
| education | United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Trimble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Isaac Ridgeway Trimble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1822 ⓘ |
| heldAs | prisoner of war ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major general ⓘ |
| notableEvent | severe leg wound leading to amputation after Gettysburg ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being severely wounded during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg
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leadership in several key battles of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil engineer
ⓘ
railroad engineer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Second Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Valley Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preWarActivity | worked as a civil engineer on railroads ⓘ |
| preWarEmployer |
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotedToMajorGeneralOn | 1862-10-02 ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence | Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Robert E. Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sideInCivilWar | Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfMilitaryService | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| woundedDuring | Pickett’s Charge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| woundedIn | Battle of Gettysburg 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: Isaac Trimble Description of subject: Isaac Trimble was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles and his wounding during the assault at Gettysburg.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.