Pillow
E659680
Pillow is the surname of Gideon J. Pillow, a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pillow canonical | 3 |
| Mary Elizabeth Martin Pillow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7382134 — 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: Pillow Context triple: [Gideon J. Pillow, familyName, Pillow]
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A.
Kasur
Kasur is a historic city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, renowned as the home and burial place of the Sufi poet Bulleh Shah.
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B.
This Bed
"This Bed" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys featured on her 2009 album "The Element of Freedom."
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C.
Penn-ar-Bed
Penn-ar-Bed is the Breton name for the Finistère department in western Brittany, France, known for its rugged coastline and strong Celtic cultural heritage.
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D.
Plexicushion
Plexicushion is a cushioned acrylic hardcourt surface used on professional tennis courts, notably at the Australian Open.
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E.
Bed
"Bed" is a 2007 R&B single by American singer J. Holiday, produced and co-written by Tricky Stewart, known for its sensual lyrics and smooth, slow-jam style.
- 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: Pillow Target entity description: Pillow is the surname of Gideon J. Pillow, a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
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A.
Kasur
Kasur is a historic city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, renowned as the home and burial place of the Sufi poet Bulleh Shah.
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B.
This Bed
"This Bed" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys featured on her 2009 album "The Element of Freedom."
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C.
Penn-ar-Bed
Penn-ar-Bed is the Breton name for the Finistère department in western Brittany, France, known for its rugged coastline and strong Celtic cultural heritage.
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D.
Plexicushion
Plexicushion is a cushioned acrylic hardcourt surface used on professional tennis courts, notably at the Australian Open.
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E.
Bed
"Bed" is a 2007 R&B single by American singer J. Holiday, produced and co-written by Tricky Stewart, known for its sensual lyrics and smooth, slow-jam style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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American politician ⓘ Confederate general ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Pillow ⓘ |
| givenName | Gideon ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Gideon J. Pillow ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | general in the Confederate Army ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Pillow Description of subject: Pillow is the surname of Gideon J. Pillow, a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.