McClellan
E1025868
McClellan is an author known for writing the work titled "The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McClellan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12818088 — 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: McClellan Context triple: [The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay, hasAuthorSurname, McClellan]
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A.
George McClellan
George McClellan was a Union general during the American Civil War who organized the Army of the Potomac and later ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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B.
George B. McClellan Jr.
George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
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C.
Macdonough
Macdonough is a surname most notably associated with Thomas Macdonough, a distinguished early 19th-century U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero.
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D.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
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E.
Fitz John Porter
Fitz John Porter was a Union Army major general during the American Civil War, best known for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac and his controversial court-martial following the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 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: McClellan Target entity description: McClellan is an author known for writing the work titled "The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay."
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A.
George McClellan
George McClellan was a Union general during the American Civil War who organized the Army of the Potomac and later ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
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B.
George B. McClellan Jr.
George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
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C.
Macdonough
Macdonough is a surname most notably associated with Thomas Macdonough, a distinguished early 19th-century U.S. naval officer and War of 1812 hero.
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D.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a prominent U.S. Army general and presidential candidate who served in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War, and helped shape early U.S. military strategy.
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E.
Fitz John Porter
Fitz John Porter was a Union Army major general during the American Civil War, best known for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac and his controversial court-martial following the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
author
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writtenWork ⓘ |
| author | McClellan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | author ⓘ |
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: McClellan Description of subject: McClellan is an author known for writing the work titled "The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.