Wade Hampton III
E120847
Confederate military officer
United States senator
cavalry commander
governor
human
planter
politician
slave owner
Wade Hampton III was a prominent Confederate cavalry leader in the American Civil War who later became a powerful postwar political figure and governor of South Carolina.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wade Hampton III canonical | 11 |
| Wade Hampton Hamilton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051015 — 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: Wade Hampton III Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Wade Hampton III]
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A.
Sherman Adams
Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
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B.
Sam Huff
Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
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C.
Willie Wise
Willie Wise is a former American professional basketball forward best known for his standout play in the ABA during the early 1970s.
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D.
Wayman Crow
Wayman Crow was a 19th-century American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for helping establish major cultural and educational institutions in St. Louis, including Washington University.
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E.
Homer Murray
Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
- 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: Wade Hampton III Target entity description: Wade Hampton III was a prominent Confederate cavalry leader in the American Civil War who later became a powerful postwar political figure and governor of South Carolina.
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A.
Sherman Adams
Sherman Adams was an American politician and close aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, best known for his influential role in the Eisenhower administration and his resignation amid a gifts scandal.
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B.
Sam Huff
Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
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C.
Willie Wise
Willie Wise is a former American professional basketball forward best known for his standout play in the ABA during the early 1970s.
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D.
Wayman Crow
Wayman Crow was a 19th-century American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for helping establish major cultural and educational institutions in St. Louis, including Washington University.
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E.
Homer Murray
Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate military officer
ⓘ
United States senator ⓘ cavalry commander ⓘ governor ⓘ human ⓘ planter ⓘ politician ⓘ slave owner ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1818-03-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Charleston, South Carolina
|
| burialPlace |
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral churchyard, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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surface form:
Trinity Episcopal Churchyard, Columbia, South Carolina
|
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1902-04-11 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Columbia, South Carolina ⓘ |
| familyName | Hampton ⓘ |
| father | Wade Hampton II ⓘ |
| fullName | Wade Hampton III self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Wade ⓘ |
| ideology | white supremacy ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | Army of Northern Virginia ⓘ |
| movement | Redeemer Democrats ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Brandy Station
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ Battle of Trevilian Station ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Confederate cavalry in the American Civil War
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leading the Redeemer movement in South Carolina ⓘ postwar political leadership in South Carolina ⓘ role in the 1876 South Carolina gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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planter ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndForGovernorOfSouthCarolina | 1879 ⓘ |
| officeEndForUSSenatorFromSouthCarolina | 1891 ⓘ |
| officeStartForGovernorOfSouthCarolina | 1876 ⓘ |
| officeStartForUSSenatorFromSouthCarolina | 1879 ⓘ |
| owned |
hundreds of enslaved people before the Civil War
ⓘ
large plantations in South Carolina ⓘ |
| party | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of South Carolina
ⓘ
South Carolina state representative ⓘ South Carolina state senator ⓘ United States Senator from South Carolina ⓘ member of the South Carolina General Assembly ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret Preston Hampton
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Mary Singleton McDuffie Hampton ⓘ |
| startTime | 1876 ⓘ |
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: Wade Hampton III Description of subject: Wade Hampton III was a prominent Confederate cavalry leader in the American Civil War who later became a powerful postwar political figure and governor of South Carolina.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wade Hampton Hamilton