David Perry
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David Perry was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal troops during the 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon in the Nez Perce War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Perry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11131635 — 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: David Perry Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, relatedPeople, David Perry]
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A.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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B.
Jeffrey Abrams
Jeffrey Abrams is an actor known for his supporting role in the romantic comedy film "Two Weeks Notice."
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C.
Jonathan Poneman
Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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D.
Ed Guiney
Ed Guiney is an Irish film producer and co-founder of Element Pictures, known for collaborating on acclaimed films such as "The Favourite," "Room," and "Poor Things."
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E.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
- 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: David Perry Target entity description: David Perry was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal troops during the 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon in the Nez Perce War.
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A.
Michael Daves
Michael Daves is an American bluegrass and roots musician known for his high-energy vocal style and collaborations with prominent artists such as mandolinist Chris Thile.
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B.
Jeffrey Abrams
Jeffrey Abrams is an actor known for his supporting role in the romantic comedy film "Two Weeks Notice."
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C.
Jonathan Poneman
Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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D.
Ed Guiney
Ed Guiney is an Irish film producer and co-founder of Element Pictures, known for collaborating on acclaimed films such as "The Favourite," "Room," and "Poor Things."
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E.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Army officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| conflict | Nez Perce War ⓘ |
| conflictLocation | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| eventLocation |
Idaho Territory
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White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Indian Wars in the American West
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linked to:
American Indian Wars in the West
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| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableEvent | defeat of his command at the Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding federal troops at the Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opponent | Nez Perce ⓘ |
| opponentCommander | Chief Joseph ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. Army campaigns against the Nez Perce ⓘ |
| role | commander of U.S. Army troops at the Battle of White Bird Canyon ⓘ |
| side |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: David Perry Description of subject: David Perry was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding federal troops during the 1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon in the Nez Perce War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.