Joseph Holt
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Joseph Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as a key member of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration, notably as Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Holt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8535265 — 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: Joseph Holt Context triple: [Simon Cameron, precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfWar, Joseph Holt]
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A.
Joseph Holt
Joseph Holt was an Irish rebel leader and guerrilla commander who played a prominent role in the 1798 uprising against British rule.
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B.
Charles R. Ferrell
Charles R. Ferrell was a key Baylor University figure and benefactor for whom the Ferrell Center arena in Waco, Texas, is named.
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C.
William Paxton
William Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," and "Titanic," as well as the HBO series "Big Love."
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D.
Charles Holbrook
Charles Holbrook is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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E.
Albert S. Bickmore
Albert S. Bickmore was a 19th-century American naturalist and museum curator best known for spearheading the creation of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- 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: Joseph Holt Target entity description: Joseph Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as a key member of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration, notably as Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
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A.
Joseph Holt
Joseph Holt was an Irish rebel leader and guerrilla commander who played a prominent role in the 1798 uprising against British rule.
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B.
Charles R. Ferrell
Charles R. Ferrell was a key Baylor University figure and benefactor for whom the Ferrell Center arena in Waco, Texas, is named.
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C.
William Paxton
William Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," and "Titanic," as well as the HBO series "Big Love."
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D.
Charles Holbrook
Charles Holbrook is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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E.
Albert S. Bickmore
Albert S. Bickmore was a 19th-century American naturalist and museum curator best known for spearheading the creation of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Abraham Lincoln
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Buchanan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1807-01-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1894-08-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Centre College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Joseph’s College (Bardstown, Kentucky) NERFINISHED ⓘ Transylvania University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
United States Army
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | strong Unionist stance despite Kentucky origins ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalSpecialty | military law ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lincoln administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| name | Joseph Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in military trials after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
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service as Judge Advocate General during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork | prosecution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge advocate
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Breckinridge County, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Postmaster General NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Secretary of War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Louisville, Kentucky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret Wickliffe Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn | military justice reforms during the Civil War ⓘ |
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: Joseph Holt Description of subject: Joseph Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as a key member of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration, notably as Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.