Horace L. McBride
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Horace L. McBride was a United States Army major general who commanded the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
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| Horace L. McBride canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11156760 — 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: Horace L. McBride Context triple: [80th Infantry Division, notableCommander, Horace L. McBride]
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A.
Marcellus E. Foster
Marcellus E. Foster was an American journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founder of the Houston Chronicle.
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B.
Leroy S. Johnson
Leroy S. Johnson was a prominent Mormon fundamentalist leader who guided the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints through much of the mid-20th century.
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C.
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent Atlanta entrepreneur and founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, making him one of the first Black millionaires in the United States.
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D.
William T. Williams
William T. Williams is an American abstract painter and influential figure in Black contemporary art who helped establish the Studio Museum in Harlem as a major institution for artists of African descent.
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E.
Sumner W. Jackson
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
- 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: Horace L. McBride Target entity description: Horace L. McBride was a United States Army major general who commanded the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.
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A.
Marcellus E. Foster
Marcellus E. Foster was an American journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founder of the Houston Chronicle.
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B.
Leroy S. Johnson
Leroy S. Johnson was a prominent Mormon fundamentalist leader who guided the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints through much of the mid-20th century.
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C.
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent Atlanta entrepreneur and founder of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, making him one of the first Black millionaires in the United States.
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D.
William T. Williams
William T. Williams is an American abstract painter and influential figure in Black contemporary art who helped establish the Studio Museum in Harlem as a major institution for artists of African descent.
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E.
Sumner W. Jackson
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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human ⓘ major general ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| awardReceived |
Bronze Star Medal
ⓘ
Distinguished Service Medal (United States) ⓘ French Croix de Guerre ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Legion of Merit ⓘ Order of the British Empire ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | McBride ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military science ⓘ |
| givenName | Horace ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Major General ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| notableCommanderOf |
80th Infantry Division (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
80th Infantry Division
XX Corps Artillery ⓘ
linked to:
XX Corps
|
| notableWork | command of the 80th Infantry Division in the European Theater during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
European Theater of Operations in World War II
ⓘ
linked to:
European theatre of World War II
|
| partOf | United States Army ground forces in the European Theater ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of the 80th Infantry Division
ⓘ
commanding general of the 20th Corps Artillery ⓘ commanding general of the 80th Infantry Division ⓘ commanding general of the 9th Infantry Division Artillery ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | O-2559 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Horace L. McBride Description of subject: Horace L. McBride was a United States Army major general who commanded the 80th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.