Custis Lee
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Custis Lee was a Confederate general and the eldest son of Robert E. Lee, who served in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Custis Lee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8761929 — 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: Custis Lee Context triple: [Battle of Sailor’s Creek, commander, Custis Lee]
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A.
Custis
Custis is a historic Virginia family name most notably associated with the stepchildren and descendants of George Washington through his wife Martha Dandridge Custis.
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B.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent member of the Virginia gentry, known for her philanthropy, religious work, and role as the mother-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
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C.
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known primarily as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
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D.
Elizabeth Parke Custis
Elizabeth Parke Custis was one of Martha Washington’s four step-granddaughters, a prominent member of the Virginia gentry in the early American republic.
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E.
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
- 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: Custis Lee Target entity description: Custis Lee was a Confederate general and the eldest son of Robert E. Lee, who served in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
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A.
Custis
Custis is a historic Virginia family name most notably associated with the stepchildren and descendants of George Washington through his wife Martha Dandridge Custis.
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B.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent member of the Virginia gentry, known for her philanthropy, religious work, and role as the mother-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
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C.
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known primarily as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
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D.
Elizabeth Parke Custis
Elizabeth Parke Custis was one of Martha Washington’s four step-granddaughters, a prominent member of the Virginia gentry in the early American republic.
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E.
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | engineering degree ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Confederate States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lee Chapel, Lexington, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedAt | Battle of Sailor’s Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1832-09-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1913-02-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| endTime | 1897 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | George Washington Custis Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1854 ⓘ |
| middleName | Washington Custis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableProperty | legal claim to Arlington estate ⓘ |
| notableWork | defense of Richmond in 1864–1865 ⓘ |
| occupation |
military engineer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fort Monroe, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ravensworth, Fairfax County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis
ⓘ
president of Washington and Lee University ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| servedIn | Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anne Carter Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eleanor Agnes Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Custis Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Mildred Childe Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert E. Lee Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ William Henry Fitzhugh Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1871 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Custis Lee Description of subject: Custis Lee was a Confederate general and the eldest son of Robert E. Lee, who served in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.