James Powell
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James Powell was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the outnumbered soldiers who successfully defended themselves against a large Native American force in the 1867 Wagon Box Fight near Fort Phil Kearny.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Powell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10472906 — 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: James Powell Context triple: [Wagon Box Fight, commander, James Powell]
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A.
Gregory Powell
Gregory Powell is a recurring human roboticist in Isaac Asimov’s Robot stories, known for troubleshooting complex problems involving positronic robots alongside his partner Mike Donovan.
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B.
Eric Powell
Eric Powell is a supporting character in the film "Julie & Julia," portrayed as Julie Powell’s husband who provides emotional support and grounding amid her ambitious cooking project.
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C.
Po Powell
Po Powell is a graphic designer best known as a founding member of the iconic album-cover design studio Hipgnosis.
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D.
Tim Powell
Tim Powell is a songwriter and producer known for his work on pop tracks such as the Pet Shop Boys’ single "Love etc."
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E.
David Powell
David Powell was a Scottish-born stage and silent film actor prominent in early 20th-century cinema.
- 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: James Powell Target entity description: James Powell was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the outnumbered soldiers who successfully defended themselves against a large Native American force in the 1867 Wagon Box Fight near Fort Phil Kearny.
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A.
Gregory Powell
Gregory Powell is a recurring human roboticist in Isaac Asimov’s Robot stories, known for troubleshooting complex problems involving positronic robots alongside his partner Mike Donovan.
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B.
Eric Powell
Eric Powell is a supporting character in the film "Julie & Julia," portrayed as Julie Powell’s husband who provides emotional support and grounding amid her ambitious cooking project.
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C.
Po Powell
Po Powell is a graphic designer best known as a founding member of the iconic album-cover design studio Hipgnosis.
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D.
Tim Powell
Tim Powell is a songwriter and producer known for his work on pop tracks such as the Pet Shop Boys’ single "Love etc."
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E.
David Powell
David Powell was a Scottish-born stage and silent film actor prominent in early 20th-century cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fort Phil Kearny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Red Cloud's War NERFINISHED ⓘ Wagon Box Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded | detachment of U.S. soldiers at Wagon Box Fight ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1867 Wagon Box Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | military commander ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Indian Wars in the American West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th-century American West ⓘ |
| knownFor | leading an outnumbered force to successful defense ⓘ |
| locationOfNotableEvent | near Fort Phil Kearny, Dakota Territory (later Wyoming) ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict |
Red Cloud's War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wagon Box Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding U.S. soldiers in the Wagon Box Fight
ⓘ
defending Fort Phil Kearny area in 1867 ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| opponent |
Lakota Sioux (context of Red Cloud's War)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Native American warriors ⓘ Northern Plains tribes (context of Red Cloud's War) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Army garrison at Fort Phil Kearny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Fort Phil Kearny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wyoming Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | officer in the U.S. Army ⓘ |
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: James Powell Description of subject: James Powell was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the outnumbered soldiers who successfully defended themselves against a large Native American force in the 1867 Wagon Box Fight near Fort Phil Kearny.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.