William Maxwell
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William Maxwell was an Irish-born American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Maxwell canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6705671 — 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: William Maxwell Context triple: [Battle of Cooch’s Bridge, commander, William Maxwell]
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A.
William C. Maxwell
William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
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B.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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C.
Arthur Peppercorn
Arthur Peppercorn was a prominent British steam locomotive designer who served as the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway, overseeing the development of its final express passenger engines.
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D.
Thomas Campbell Clark
Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and later as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967.
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E.
Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
- 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: William Maxwell Target entity description: William Maxwell was an Irish-born American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
William C. Maxwell
William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
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B.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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C.
Arthur Peppercorn
Arthur Peppercorn was a prominent British steam locomotive designer who served as the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway, overseeing the development of its final express passenger engines.
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D.
Thomas Campbell Clark
Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and later as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967.
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E.
Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
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: William Maxwell Description of subject: William Maxwell was an Irish-born American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.