Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
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Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
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| Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9017852 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner Context triple: [New Jersey Volunteers, commander, Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner]
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Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is the fictional, highly decorated but rogue U.S. Marine Corps general who leads the hostage-taking operation on Alcatraz Island in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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Brigadier General Strong Vincent
Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
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E.
Brigadier General Powell Clayton
Brigadier General Powell Clayton was a 19th-century American military officer, Reconstruction-era governor of Arkansas, and later U.S. senator and diplomat.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner Target entity description: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is the fictional, highly decorated but rogue U.S. Marine Corps general who leads the hostage-taking operation on Alcatraz Island in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
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B.
Brigadier General Strong Vincent
Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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C.
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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D.
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
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E.
Brigadier General Powell Clayton
Brigadier General Powell Clayton was a 19th-century American military officer, Reconstruction-era governor of Arkansas, and later U.S. senator and diplomat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British provincial officer
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Loyalist military leader ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
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Loyalists ⓘ |
| commanded | New Jersey Volunteers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Province of New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonist ⓘ |
| familyName | Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Cortlandt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| loyalty | British Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Provincial forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Brigadier General ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Loyalist provincial troops in New Jersey
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serving as attorney general of New Jersey before the American Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial official
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lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Loyalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Attorney General of New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | British side in the American Revolutionary 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: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner Description of subject: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.