Cadmus M. Wilcox
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Cadmus M. Wilcox was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry divisions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cadmus M. Wilcox canonical | 7 |
| Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8337082 — 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: Cadmus M. Wilcox Context triple: [Battle of White Oak Road, commander, Cadmus M. Wilcox]
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A.
W. K. Pendleton
W. K. Pendleton was a 19th-century American Restoration Movement leader and educator closely associated with Alexander Campbell and the publication of The Millennial Harbinger.
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B.
William R. Burnham
William R. Burnham was an American architect known for his partnership in the Denver-based firm Edbrooke and Burnham, which designed prominent late 19th-century buildings.
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C.
William H. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds was an American film editor renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
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D.
Stevens T. Mason
Stevens T. Mason was the first governor of the U.S. state of Michigan, known as the "Boy Governor" for taking office at an unusually young age and leading Michigan to statehood.
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E.
Frederick Quitman
Frederick Quitman was the son of prominent American politician and Mexican–American War general John A. Quitman.
- 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: Cadmus M. Wilcox Target entity description: Cadmus M. Wilcox was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry divisions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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A.
W. K. Pendleton
W. K. Pendleton was a 19th-century American Restoration Movement leader and educator closely associated with Alexander Campbell and the publication of The Millennial Harbinger.
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B.
William R. Burnham
William R. Burnham was an American architect known for his partnership in the Denver-based firm Edbrooke and Burnham, which designed prominent late 19th-century buildings.
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C.
William H. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds was an American film editor renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
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D.
Stevens T. Mason
Stevens T. Mason was the first governor of the U.S. state of Michigan, known as the "Boy Governor" for taking office at an unusually young age and leading Michigan to statehood.
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E.
Frederick Quitman
Frederick Quitman was the son of prominent American politician and Mexican–American War general John A. Quitman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Cadmus M. Wilcox Description of subject: Cadmus M. Wilcox was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry divisions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cadmus M. Wilcox