Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton
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Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton was a senior Confederate commander in the American Civil War, best known for leading Southern forces during the Vicksburg Campaign and ultimately surrendering the city to Ulysses S. Grant.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6701382 — 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: Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton Context triple: [Battle of Big Black River Bridge, ConfederateCommanderRank, Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton]
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A.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
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C.
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for directing the opening attack of the conflict and later commanding major Southern armies in the Eastern and Western theaters.
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D.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.
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E.
Michael Longstreet
Michael Longstreet is one of the central, increasingly volatile parents in the dark comedy film "Carnage," portrayed by John C. Reilly.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton Target entity description: Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton was a senior Confederate commander in the American Civil War, best known for leading Southern forces during the Vicksburg Campaign and ultimately surrendering the city to Ulysses S. Grant.
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A.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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B.
Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
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C.
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for directing the opening attack of the conflict and later commanding major Southern armies in the Eastern and Western theaters.
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D.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.
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E.
Michael Longstreet
Michael Longstreet is one of the central, increasingly volatile parents in the dark comedy film "Carnage," portrayed by John C. Reilly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton Description of subject: Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton was a senior Confederate commander in the American Civil War, best known for leading Southern forces during the Vicksburg Campaign and ultimately surrendering the city to Ulysses S. Grant.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Battle of Big Black River Bridge
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ConfederateCommanderRank
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Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton
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