Wolfe
E107098
Wolfe is a surname most famously associated with British Army officer James Wolfe, known for his role in the Seven Years' War and the capture of Quebec.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolfe canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T886385 — 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: Wolfe Context triple: [James Wolfe, familyName, Wolfe]
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A.
Foege
Foege is the surname of William H. Foege, an American epidemiologist renowned for his pivotal role in the global eradication of smallpox.
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B.
Wolff
Wolff is a German surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as philosophy, science, and the arts.
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C.
Griffin
Griffin is the fictional surname of the central family in the animated television series "Family Guy," most notably borne by the character Peter Griffin.
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D.
Griffin
The Griffin is the mythical creature that serves as the official mascot and symbol of Reed College.
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E.
Bayard
Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
- 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: Wolfe Target entity description: Wolfe is a surname most famously associated with British Army officer James Wolfe, known for his role in the Seven Years' War and the capture of Quebec.
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A.
Foege
Foege is the surname of William H. Foege, an American epidemiologist renowned for his pivotal role in the global eradication of smallpox.
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B.
Wolff
Wolff is a German surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as philosophy, science, and the arts.
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C.
Griffin
Griffin is the fictional surname of the central family in the animated television series "Family Guy," most notably borne by the character Peter Griffin.
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D.
Griffin
The Griffin is the mythical creature that serves as the official mascot and symbol of Reed College.
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E.
Bayard
Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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family name ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1727-01-02 ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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German-language surnames ⓘ Jewish surnames ⓘ surnames from given names ⓘ surnames from nicknames ⓘ |
| conflict | Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1759-09-13 ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Middle High German "wolf"
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Old High German "wolf" ⓘ |
| familyName |
Wolfe
self-linksurface differs
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Wolfe self-linksurface differs ⓘ Wolfe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Gene Wolfe
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James Wolfe ⓘ Tom Wolfe ⓘ Virginia Wolfe (disambiguation note: often confused with Virginia Woolf) ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Wolf
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Wolff ⓘ Virginia Woolf ⓘ
surface form:
Woolf
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| knownFor |
British victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
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capture of Quebec in 1759 ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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German ⓘ Jewish ⓘ |
| meaning | wolf ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Greenwich ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Quebec City ⓘ |
| rank | Major General ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Canada
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Germany ⓘ Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| variantOf | Wolf ⓘ |
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: Wolfe Description of subject: Wolfe is a surname most famously associated with British Army officer James Wolfe, known for his role in the Seven Years' War and the capture of Quebec.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Wolfe
subject surface form:
Tom Wolfe
subject surface form:
Gene Wolfe