Fulton
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Fulton is the middle name of American Civil War Union general John F. Reynolds, a prominent commander in the Army of the Potomac.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fulton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7923679 — 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: Fulton Context triple: [John F. Reynolds, middleName, Fulton]
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A.
Fulton
Fulton is a small city in northwestern Illinois known for its location along the Mississippi River and its Dutch heritage, including a working Dutch windmill.
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B.
Fulton, New York
Fulton, New York is a small industrial city in Oswego County known historically for manufacturing and its location along the Oswego River and near Lake Ontario.
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C.
Pelham
Pelham is an English surname historically associated with prominent political and aristocratic families in Britain.
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D.
Pelham
Pelham is the first name of P. G. Wodehouse, the celebrated English humorist and author known for his Jeeves and Wooster stories.
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E.
Fulton, Missouri
Fulton, Missouri is a small city in central Missouri best known as the site where Winston Churchill delivered his famous 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College.
- 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: Fulton Target entity description: Fulton is the middle name of American Civil War Union general John F. Reynolds, a prominent commander in the Army of the Potomac.
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A.
Fulton
Fulton is a small city in northwestern Illinois known for its location along the Mississippi River and its Dutch heritage, including a working Dutch windmill.
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B.
Fulton, New York
Fulton, New York is a small industrial city in Oswego County known historically for manufacturing and its location along the Oswego River and near Lake Ontario.
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C.
Pelham
Pelham is the first name of P. G. Wodehouse, the celebrated English humorist and author known for his Jeeves and Wooster stories.
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D.
Pelham
Pelham is an English surname historically associated with prominent political and aristocratic families in Britain.
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E.
Fulton, Missouri
Fulton, Missouri is a small city in central Missouri best known as the site where Winston Churchill delivered his famous 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Union Army field army
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Union Army general ⓘ middle name ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
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American Civil War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fullName | John Fulton Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenNameUsage | middle name of John F. Reynolds ⓘ |
| isMiddleNameOf | John F. Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Fulton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the Army of the Potomac ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander in the Army of the Potomac ⓘ |
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: Fulton Description of subject: Fulton is the middle name of American Civil War Union general John F. Reynolds, a prominent commander in the Army of the Potomac.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.