Major Samuel Ringgold
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Major Samuel Ringgold was a U.S. Army officer renowned as a pioneer of modern artillery tactics during the Mexican–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Samuel Ringgold canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9764854 — 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: Major Samuel Ringgold Context triple: [Ringgold County, namedAfter, Major Samuel Ringgold]
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Major Roy Franklin
Major Roy Franklin is a British officer in the World War II adventure novel and film "The Guns of Navarone," whose injury and compromised status create a critical moral and tactical dilemma for the commando team.
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B.
Major William Lauderdale
Major William Lauderdale was a U.S. Army officer in the Second Seminole War whose leadership in establishing a military post in Florida led to the city of Fort Lauderdale being named in his honor.
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C.
Major Frank Goodden
Major Frank Goodden was a British test pilot and aviation pioneer closely associated with the Royal Aircraft Factory during World War I.
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D.
Major Ronald Ferguson
Major Ronald Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager best known as the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, and maternal grandfather of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
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E.
Major William Barker
Major William Barker was a highly decorated Canadian First World War flying ace renowned for his extraordinary aerial combat achievements and bravery.
- 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: Major Samuel Ringgold Target entity description: Major Samuel Ringgold was a U.S. Army officer renowned as a pioneer of modern artillery tactics during the Mexican–American War.
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A.
Major Roy Franklin
Major Roy Franklin is a British officer in the World War II adventure novel and film "The Guns of Navarone," whose injury and compromised status create a critical moral and tactical dilemma for the commando team.
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B.
Major William Lauderdale
Major William Lauderdale was a U.S. Army officer in the Second Seminole War whose leadership in establishing a military post in Florida led to the city of Fort Lauderdale being named in his honor.
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C.
Major Frank Goodden
Major Frank Goodden was a British test pilot and aviation pioneer closely associated with the Royal Aircraft Factory during World War I.
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D.
Major Ronald Ferguson
Major Ronald Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager best known as the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, and maternal grandfather of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
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E.
Major William Barker
Major William Barker was a highly decorated Canadian First World War flying ace renowned for his extraordinary aerial combat achievements and bravery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Palo Alto ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | wounds received in battle ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1846-05-11 ⓘ |
| developed | flying artillery tactics ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | Ringgold ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artillery
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military tactics ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasParticularDesignation | Father of Modern Artillery ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Samuel Ringgold (congressman) ⓘ |
| influenced | U.S. Army artillery doctrine ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Fort Ringgold, Texas
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linked to:
Fort Brown, Texas
Ringgold County, Iowa ⓘ Ringgold, Georgia ⓘ Ringgold, Maryland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering modern artillery tactics
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service in the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Point Isabel, Texas ⓘ |
| positionHeld | officer in the U.S. Army artillery ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Major Samuel Ringgold Description of subject: Major Samuel Ringgold was a U.S. Army officer renowned as a pioneer of modern artillery tactics during the Mexican–American War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.