Albert Woolson
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Albert Woolson was an American Civil War veteran widely recognized as the last surviving member of the Union veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Albert Woolson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8256934 — 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: Albert Woolson Context triple: [Grand Army of the Republic, lastSurvivingMember, Albert Woolson]
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A.
Theodore Hook
Theodore Hook was a 19th-century English man of letters best known as a comic novelist, wit, and prolific writer of light fiction and satire.
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B.
Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his psychological horror and suspense stories, including the novel that inspired the film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?".
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C.
Lucien Carr
Lucien Carr was an American writer and central Beat Generation figure whose friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs helped catalyze the movement’s early development.
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D.
Alex Reiger
Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
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E.
Henry Seabrook
Henry Seabrook was an architect best known for designing the Europa Hotel in Belfast, one of the city's most prominent and historically significant hotels.
- 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: Albert Woolson Target entity description: Albert Woolson was an American Civil War veteran widely recognized as the last surviving member of the Union veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.
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A.
Theodore Hook
Theodore Hook was a 19th-century English man of letters best known as a comic novelist, wit, and prolific writer of light fiction and satire.
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B.
Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his psychological horror and suspense stories, including the novel that inspired the film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?".
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C.
Lucien Carr
Lucien Carr was an American writer and central Beat Generation figure whose friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs helped catalyze the movement’s early development.
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D.
Alex Reiger
Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
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E.
Henry Seabrook
Henry Seabrook was an architect best known for designing the Europa Hotel in Belfast, one of the city's most prominent and historically significant hotels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War veteran
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Union Army veteran ⓘ human ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 109 ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Park Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minnesota, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | statue in Duluth, Minnesota ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1847-02-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1956-08-02 ⓘ |
| era |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Woolson ⓘ |
| givenName | Albert ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | American ⓘ |
| hasRole | drummer boy in the Union Army ⓘ |
| memberOf | Grand Army of the Republic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ⓘ |
| name | Albert Woolson ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the last surviving member of the Grand Army of the Republic ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| partOf | Union veterans community ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Antwerp, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Duluth
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| recognizedAs |
last surviving Union Army veteran of the American Civil War
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last surviving member of the Grand Army of the Republic ⓘ |
| residence |
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Duluth
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical studies on American Civil War veterans ⓘ |
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: Albert Woolson Description of subject: Albert Woolson was an American Civil War veteran widely recognized as the last surviving member of the Union veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.