Isaac Erwin Avery
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Isaac Erwin Avery was a Confederate Army officer and colonel from North Carolina who was mortally wounded while leading his regiment during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
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| Isaac Erwin Avery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5846250 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Erwin Avery Context triple: [Isaac E. Avery, fullName, Isaac Erwin Avery]
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A.
Ellsworth Raymond Johnson
Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson was a notorious mid-20th-century Harlem crime boss and influential figure in New York City's underworld.
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B.
Asa Gilbert Eddy
Asa Gilbert Eddy was the husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and is noted for being her first follower and supporter in establishing the movement.
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C.
Charles S. Hamlin
Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
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D.
William Atkinson Jones
William Atkinson Jones was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia best known for sponsoring landmark legislation on American territorial policy, including measures affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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E.
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."
- 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 Erwin Avery Target entity description: Isaac Erwin Avery was a Confederate Army officer and colonel from North Carolina who was mortally wounded while leading his regiment during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
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A.
Ellsworth Raymond Johnson
Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson was a notorious mid-20th-century Harlem crime boss and influential figure in New York City's underworld.
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B.
Asa Gilbert Eddy
Asa Gilbert Eddy was the husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and is noted for being her first follower and supporter in establishing the movement.
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C.
Charles S. Hamlin
Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
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D.
William Atkinson Jones
William Atkinson Jones was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia best known for sponsoring landmark legislation on American territorial policy, including measures affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1828-12-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Burke County, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| burialPlace | Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | mortally wounded in battle ⓘ |
| commanded | 6th North Carolina Infantry Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| deathDate | 1863-07-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| middleName | Erwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | 6th North Carolina Infantry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | mortally wounded while leading his regiment during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading a charge at Gettysburg where he was mortally wounded ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Gettysburg
NERFINISHED
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Pickett's Charge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionAssociatedWith | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | North Carolina 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 Erwin Avery Description of subject: Isaac Erwin Avery was a Confederate Army officer and colonel from North Carolina who was mortally wounded while leading his regiment during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Isaac E. Avery