John B. Walton
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John B. Walton was a Confederate artillery officer best known for commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John B. Walton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8400343 — 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: John B. Walton Context triple: [Confederate artillery, notableCommander, John B. Walton]
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A.
J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
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B.
Robert F. Goheen
Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
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C.
Michael J. Horton
Michael J. Horton is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films, including serving on the editing team for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."
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D.
John H. Morris
John H. Morris was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the major insurance company MetLife.
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E.
Michael B. Green
Michael B. Green is a British theoretical physicist and pioneer of string theory, renowned for his foundational work on anomaly cancellation and the development of modern superstring theory.
- 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: John B. Walton Target entity description: John B. Walton was a Confederate artillery officer best known for commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
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A.
J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
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B.
Robert F. Goheen
Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
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C.
Michael J. Horton
Michael J. Horton is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films, including serving on the editing team for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."
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D.
John H. Morris
John H. Morris was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the major insurance company MetLife.
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E.
Michael B. Green
Michael B. Green is a British theoretical physicist and pioneer of string theory, renowned for his foundational work on anomaly cancellation and the development of modern superstring theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate military officer
ⓘ
artillery unit ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| commanded | Washington Artillery of New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfWork | artillery ⓘ |
| hasRole | artillery commander ⓘ |
| location | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John B. Walton Description of subject: John B. Walton was a Confederate artillery officer best known for commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.