Alexander Hood
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Alexander Hood was a notable individual interred at Woodward Hill Cemetery, recognized for his local historical significance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Hood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7371849 — 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: Alexander Hood Context triple: [Woodward Hill Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Alexander Hood]
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A.
Emory Upton
Emory Upton was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer and military strategist known for his influential reforms in military organization and tactics.
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B.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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C.
Lucius A. Bigelow
Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
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D.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
- 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: Alexander Hood Target entity description: Alexander Hood was a notable individual interred at Woodward Hill Cemetery, recognized for his local historical significance.
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A.
Emory Upton
Emory Upton was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer and military strategist known for his influential reforms in military organization and tactics.
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B.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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C.
Lucius A. Bigelow
Lucius A. Bigelow was a notable individual associated with the Bigelow family or lineage, recognized for his prominence or contributions in his field or community.
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D.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Woodward Hill Cemetery ⓘ |
| hasNotability | local historical significance ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Woodward Hill Cemetery ⓘ |
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: Alexander Hood Description of subject: Alexander Hood was a notable individual interred at Woodward Hill Cemetery, recognized for his local historical significance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.