Cortlandt Skinner
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Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cortlandt Skinner canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9017853 — 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: Cortlandt Skinner Context triple: [New Jersey Volunteers, notableCommander, Cortlandt Skinner]
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A.
Jonathan Hasbrouck
Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
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B.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
James Van Rensselaer
James Van Rensselaer was an early American figure after whom the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, was named, likely due to his role in the area's founding or development.
- 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: Cortlandt Skinner Target entity description: Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Jonathan Hasbrouck
Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
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B.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
James Van Rensselaer
James Van Rensselaer was an early American figure after whom the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, was named, likely due to his role in the area's founding or development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Loyalist
ⓘ
attorney general ⓘ military leader ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Great Britain
ⓘ
Loyalists ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Skinner ⓘ |
| fullName | Cortlandt Skinner ⓘ |
| givenName | Cortlandt ⓘ |
| governmentServed |
British colonial administration in New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
British colonial authorities in New Jersey
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| hasRole |
chief legal officer of New Jersey colony
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provincial corps commander ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalJurisdiction | Province of New Jersey ⓘ |
| legalProfession | colonial attorney ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Loyalist provincial corps ⓘ |
| militaryCommand | New Jersey Volunteers ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading one of the largest Loyalist provincial corps in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableUnitNickname | Skinner’s Greens ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of the New Jersey Volunteers (Skinner’s Greens) ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial official
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
British North America
ⓘ
linked to:
British America
Province of New Jersey ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Loyalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of New Jersey
ⓘ
Brigadier General in the British provincial forces ⓘ |
| roleDuringWar | organized and commanded Loyalist troops for the British ⓘ |
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: Cortlandt Skinner Description of subject: Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.