Alexander McCook
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Alexander McCook was a Union major general in the American Civil War, known as one of the "Fighting McCooks" family of Ohio officers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander McCook canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10635574 — 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: Alexander McCook Context triple: [Battle of Stones River, UnionCommander, Alexander McCook]
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A.
Alexander P. Stewart
Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
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B.
Alexander McClure
Alexander McClure was an American politician, journalist, and editor known for his influential role in Pennsylvania politics and his work with the Philadelphia Times newspaper.
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C.
Macgregor Kilpatrick
Macgregor Kilpatrick was an influential American ice hockey executive and former AHL official best known for his leadership and contributions to the American Hockey League, honored by having the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy named after him.
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D.
John A. McClernand
John A. McClernand was a prominent Union Army general and Illinois politician during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Western Theater and his close political ties to President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
William A. H. Loveland
William A. H. Loveland was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader whose influence on regional development led to the Colorado city of Loveland bearing his name.
- 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: Alexander McCook Target entity description: Alexander McCook was a Union major general in the American Civil War, known as one of the "Fighting McCooks" family of Ohio officers.
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A.
Alexander P. Stewart
Alexander P. Stewart was a Confederate lieutenant general and West Point–trained career officer who commanded corps in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.
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B.
Alexander McClure
Alexander McClure was an American politician, journalist, and editor known for his influential role in Pennsylvania politics and his work with the Philadelphia Times newspaper.
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C.
Macgregor Kilpatrick
Macgregor Kilpatrick was an influential American ice hockey executive and former AHL official best known for his leadership and contributions to the American Hockey League, honored by having the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy named after him.
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D.
John A. McClernand
John A. McClernand was a prominent Union Army general and Illinois politician during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Western Theater and his close political ties to President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
William A. H. Loveland
William A. H. Loveland was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader whose influence on regional development led to the Colorado city of Loveland bearing his name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alexander McCook Description of subject: Alexander McCook was a Union major general in the American Civil War, known as one of the "Fighting McCooks" family of Ohio officers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.