Stoddert
E619955
Stoddert is the middle name of Richard S. Ewell, a Confederate lieutenant general who served prominently in the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stoddert canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6793125 — 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: Stoddert Context triple: [Richard S. Ewell, middleName, Stoddert]
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A.
Widnall
Widnall is the surname of Sheila Widnall, an American aerospace engineer and former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
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B.
McKeen
McKeen is a surname that functions as a variant spelling of the name McKean, commonly of Irish or Scottish origin.
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C.
Spruance
Spruance is a surname most notably associated with U.S. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, a key naval commander in the Pacific during World War II.
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D.
Fletcher
Fletcher is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as the military, politics, arts, and sports.
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E.
William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was a prominent early U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the frigate USS Constitution to a major victory over HMS Java in the War of 1812.
- 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: Stoddert Target entity description: Stoddert is the middle name of Richard S. Ewell, a Confederate lieutenant general who served prominently in the American Civil War.
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A.
Widnall
Widnall is the surname of Sheila Widnall, an American aerospace engineer and former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
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B.
McKeen
McKeen is a surname that functions as a variant spelling of the name McKean, commonly of Irish or Scottish origin.
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C.
Spruance
Spruance is a surname most notably associated with U.S. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, a key naval commander in the Pacific during World War II.
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D.
Fletcher
Fletcher is a surname of English origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as the military, politics, arts, and sports.
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E.
William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was a prominent early U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the frigate USS Constitution to a major victory over HMS Java in the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Confederate States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Old City Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfInjury | leg amputation ⓘ |
| commanded | Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1817-02-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1872-01-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ewell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1840 ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Stoddert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Stoddert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| nickname | Old Bald Head NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Cedar Mountain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Second Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Valley Campaigns of 1862 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableRole | corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Spring Hill, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence | Spring Hill, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Confederate States Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Robert E. Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lizinka Campbell Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| woundedIn | Battle of Groveton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Stoddert Description of subject: Stoddert is the middle name of Richard S. Ewell, a Confederate lieutenant general who served prominently in the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.