Buck Spring
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Buck Spring is a historic site in North Carolina best known as the rural retreat and burial place of Revolutionary War general and statesman Nathaniel Macon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buck Spring canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9330821 — 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: Buck Spring Context triple: [Buck Spring Plantation, Warren County, North Carolina, namedAfter, Buck Spring]
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A.
Dykeman Spring
Dykeman Spring is a historic natural spring and surrounding site in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, known for its 19th-century fish hatchery, scenic ponds, and role in local industrial and community history.
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B.
Shingle Springs
Shingle Springs is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its Gold Rush-era history and rural, foothill setting.
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C.
Weepah Spring
Weepah Spring is a natural water source in the Nevada desert known for supporting local wildlife and vegetation in an otherwise arid landscape.
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D.
Jordan Springs Creek
Jordan Springs Creek is a small stream in the Opequon Creek watershed of the Mid-Atlantic United States, contributing to the region’s larger Potomac River drainage system.
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E.
Flea Creek
Flea Creek is a minor watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as a tributary of the Goodradigbee River in the Murray–Darling Basin.
- 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: Buck Spring Target entity description: Buck Spring is a historic site in North Carolina best known as the rural retreat and burial place of Revolutionary War general and statesman Nathaniel Macon.
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A.
Dykeman Spring
Dykeman Spring is a historic natural spring and surrounding site in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, known for its 19th-century fish hatchery, scenic ponds, and role in local industrial and community history.
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B.
Shingle Springs
Shingle Springs is a small unincorporated community in Northern California known for its Gold Rush-era history and rural, foothill setting.
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C.
Weepah Spring
Weepah Spring is a natural water source in the Nevada desert known for supporting local wildlife and vegetation in an otherwise arid landscape.
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D.
Jordan Springs Creek
Jordan Springs Creek is a small stream in the Opequon Creek watershed of the Mid-Atlantic United States, contributing to the region’s larger Potomac River drainage system.
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E.
Flea Creek
Flea Creek is a minor watercourse in New South Wales, Australia, that serves as a tributary of the Goodradigbee River in the Murray–Darling Basin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Revolutionary War general
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historic site ⓘ person ⓘ rural retreat ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Nathaniel Macon ⓘ |
| buriedAt | Buck Spring ⓘ |
| category |
Historic sites in North Carolina
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National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, North Carolina ⓘ Tourist attractions in Warren County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| county | Warren County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| era |
American Revolutionary War era
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linked to:
American Revolutionary War
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| hasFeature |
family cemetery
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historic landscape ⓘ |
| hasGrave | Nathaniel Macon ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | plantation site ⓘ |
| hasUse | burial place ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| heritageStatus |
National Register of Historic Places site
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linked to:
National Register of Historic Places
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| locatedIn |
North Carolina
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | nearby spring ⓘ |
| notablePersonBuried | Nathaniel Macon ⓘ |
| residence | Buck Spring ⓘ |
| significance |
burial place of Nathaniel Macon
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home site of Nathaniel Macon ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | North Carolina ⓘ |
| use | rural retreat ⓘ |
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: Buck Spring Description of subject: Buck Spring is a historic site in North Carolina best known as the rural retreat and burial place of Revolutionary War general and statesman Nathaniel Macon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Buck Spring