General Scott
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General Scott is the honorific title commonly used for Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century United States Army general and national military leader.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| General Scott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10675890 — 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: General Scott Context triple: [Winfield Scott, hasHonorific, General Scott]
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A.
General James Mattoon Scott
General James Mattoon Scott is a fictional high-ranking U.S. military officer who leads an attempted coup against the president in the political thriller "Seven Days in May."
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B.
Marshal Ney
Marshal Ney was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his bravery and leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Richard Anderson
Richard Anderson was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic movies and as Oscar Goldman in the 1970s series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman."
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D.
Chaffee Grant
Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
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E.
Hugh A. Drum
Hugh A. Drum was a senior United States Army general best known for his high-level command roles in both World War I and World War II.
- 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: General Scott Target entity description: General Scott is the honorific title commonly used for Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century United States Army general and national military leader.
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A.
General James Mattoon Scott
General James Mattoon Scott is a fictional high-ranking U.S. military officer who leads an attempted coup against the president in the political thriller "Seven Days in May."
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B.
Marshal Ney
Marshal Ney was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his bravery and leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Richard Anderson
Richard Anderson was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic movies and as Oscar Goldman in the 1970s series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman."
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D.
Chaffee Grant
Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
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E.
Hugh A. Drum
Hugh A. Drum was a senior United States Army general best known for his high-level command roles in both World War I and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: General Scott Description of subject: General Scott is the honorific title commonly used for Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century United States Army general and national military leader.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Winfield Scott was wounded in the battle
subject linked to:
General Scott