Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
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Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7817789 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed Context triple: [Battery Weed, namedAfter, Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed]
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A.
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
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B.
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is the fictional, highly decorated but rogue U.S. Marine Corps general who leads the hostage-taking operation on Alcatraz Island in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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C.
Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
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D.
Major-General George F. Hopkinson
Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
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E.
Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt
Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt was a United States Army medical officer and hospital administrator honored for his service by having the DeWitt Army Community Hospital named after him.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed Target entity description: Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
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B.
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is the fictional, highly decorated but rogue U.S. Marine Corps general who leads the hostage-taking operation on Alcatraz Island in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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C.
Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
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D.
Major-General George F. Hopkinson
Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
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E.
Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt
Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt was a United States Army medical officer and hospital administrator honored for his service by having the DeWitt Army Community Hospital named after him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Union Army general
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union
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United States of America ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Weed ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hasHonor | promotion to brigadier general during the Civil War ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | death in battle ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Union Army
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Brigadier General
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Captain ⓘ |
| notableEvent | mortally wounded while commanding troops at Gettysburg ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a Union brigadier general killed at the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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| positionHeld | brigade commander in the Union Army ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOrID | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed Description of subject: Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.