Peter Gansevoort
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Peter Gansevoort was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his successful defense of Fort Stanwix in 1777.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Gansevoort canonical | 4 |
| Peter Gansevoort Jr. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6596064 — 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: Peter Gansevoort Context triple: [Maria Gansevoort Melvill, father, Peter Gansevoort]
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Egerton Swartwout
Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
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B.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne was a British army officer and politician best known for his role as a general during the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
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C.
Major Dunwoodie
Major Dunwoodie is a principled American cavalry officer in James Fenimore Cooper’s Revolutionary War novel "The Spy," known for his loyalty, honor, and romantic involvement amid espionage and conflict.
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D.
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
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E.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
- 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: Peter Gansevoort Target entity description: Peter Gansevoort was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his successful defense of Fort Stanwix in 1777.
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A.
Egerton Swartwout
Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
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B.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne was a British army officer and politician best known for his role as a general during the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
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C.
Major Dunwoodie
Major Dunwoodie is a principled American cavalry officer in James Fenimore Cooper’s Revolutionary War novel "The Spy," known for his loyalty, honor, and romantic involvement amid espionage and conflict.
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D.
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
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E.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Peter Gansevoort Description of subject: Peter Gansevoort was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his successful defense of Fort Stanwix in 1777.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Peter Gansevoort
linked to: Peter Gansevoort