Jesse L. Reno
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Jesse L. Reno was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general after whom the city of Reno, Nevada, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jesse L. Reno canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6652159 — 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: Jesse L. Reno Context triple: [Reno, Nevada, namedAfter, Jesse L. Reno]
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A.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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B.
William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
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C.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
Frank Irving Cobb
Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
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E.
Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Pratt was a prominent Black Panther Party leader and Vietnam War veteran who became a symbol of wrongful conviction and political repression in the United States after his controversial murder conviction was overturned.
- 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: Jesse L. Reno Target entity description: Jesse L. Reno was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general after whom the city of Reno, Nevada, is named.
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A.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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B.
William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
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C.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
Frank Irving Cobb
Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
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E.
Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Pratt was a prominent Black Panther Party leader and Vietnam War veteran who became a symbol of wrongful conviction and political repression in the United States after his controversial murder conviction was overturned.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of European descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Reno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military science ⓘ |
| givenName | Jesse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartInMilitaryUnit | IX Corps (Union Army) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | children (including Jesse W. Reno, inventor of the escalator) ⓘ |
| honorificEponym |
Fort Reno (various U.S. Army posts)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reno County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Reno, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | death in battle ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being namesake of the city of Reno, Nevada
ⓘ
service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ service in the Mexican–American War as a young officer ⓘ |
| notableWork | military leadership in the Maryland Campaign ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Battle of Antietam (campaign, prior to death)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of South Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexican–American War campaigns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Wheeling, Virginia, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Fox’s Gap, South Mountain, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of IX Corps, Army of the Potomac ⓘ |
| residence | various U.S. Army posts ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOrID | United States Army officer commission from West Point ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jesse L. Reno Description of subject: Jesse L. Reno was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general after whom the city of Reno, Nevada, is named.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Reno, Nevada