First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
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First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
All labels observed (1)
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| First Lieutenant William R. Parnell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11131608 — 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: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant William R. Parnell]
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Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
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B.
1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson
1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson was a U.S. Air Force officer whose legacy is honored through the naming of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
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C.
Corporal Frank S. Scott
Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
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D.
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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E.
Corporal Timothy Upham
Corporal Timothy Upham is a timid and bookish translator-turned-soldier in the film "Saving Private Ryan," whose moral struggles and inexperience starkly contrast with the hardened combat veterans around him.
- 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: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell Target entity description: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
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A.
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
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B.
1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson
1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson was a U.S. Air Force officer whose legacy is honored through the naming of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
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C.
Corporal Frank S. Scott
Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
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D.
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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E.
Corporal Timothy Upham
Corporal Timothy Upham is a timid and bookish translator-turned-soldier in the film "Saving Private Ryan," whose moral struggles and inexperience starkly contrast with the hardened combat veterans around him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| conflict |
Indian Wars
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linked to:
United States–Native American wars
Nez Perce War ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Parnell ⓘ |
| genre | military history figure ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
First Lieutenant
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officer ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | U.S. Army troops engaged against the Nez Perce ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of White Bird Canyon
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service in the Indian Wars in the American West ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding troops in key engagements of the Nez Perce War
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gallantry in action during the Indian Wars ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership during the Nez Perce War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| role | commander of U.S. Army troops at the Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell Description of subject: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.