Alexander McDowell McCook
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Alexander McDowell McCook was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and a member of the prominent "Fighting McCook" family of military officers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander M. McCook | 1 |
| Alexander McDowell McCook canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6662993 — 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: Alexander McDowell McCook Context triple: [McCook, Nebraska, namedAfter, Alexander McDowell McCook]
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A.
Reuben H. Walworth
Reuben H. Walworth was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as the last Chancellor of New York.
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B.
John A. Rawlins
John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
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C.
Thomas Corwin
Thomas Corwin was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, noted for his eloquence and opposition to the Mexican–American War.
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D.
Samuel M. Comer
Samuel M. Comer was an American film set decorator and art director known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood productions.
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E.
Levi Woodbury
Levi Woodbury was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and jurist who served as a U.S. senator, governor of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 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: Alexander McDowell McCook Target entity description: Alexander McDowell McCook was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and a member of the prominent "Fighting McCook" family of military officers.
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A.
Reuben H. Walworth
Reuben H. Walworth was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as the last Chancellor of New York.
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B.
John A. Rawlins
John A. Rawlins was a Union Army general and close confidant of Ulysses S. Grant who played a key role in Civil War military administration and later served in Grant’s presidential cabinet.
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C.
Thomas Corwin
Thomas Corwin was a prominent 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Ohio, U.S. senator, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, noted for his eloquence and opposition to the Mexican–American War.
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D.
Samuel M. Comer
Samuel M. Comer was an American film set decorator and art director known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood productions.
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E.
Levi Woodbury
Levi Woodbury was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and jurist who served as a U.S. senator, governor of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Union Army general
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| birthDate | 1831-04-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Columbiana County, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Dayton National Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded |
I Corps (Army of the Ohio)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
XX Corps (Union Army) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1903-06-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Dayton, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decoratedWith | brevet promotion to major general, U.S. Army ⓘ |
| education | United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish-American ⓘ |
| familyName | McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Daniel McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Alexander McDowell McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1852 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fighting McCooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Fighting McCook family of Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a Union general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Shiloh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Stones River NERFINISHED ⓘ Chickamauga Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ First Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Perryville Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Tullahoma Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postMilitaryCareer | served in various army administrative and command posts after the Civil War ⓘ |
| servedIn | U.S. Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1895 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1852 ⓘ |
| sibling |
Charles Morris McCook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daniel McCook Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Edwin Stanton McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ George Wythe McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ John James McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ Latimer A. McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Latimer McCook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alexander McDowell McCook Description of subject: Alexander McDowell McCook was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and a member of the prominent "Fighting McCook" family of military officers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
McCook, Nebraska
this entity surface form:
Alexander M. McCook