John S. Mosby
E132232
John S. Mosby was a famed Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, best known for leading partisan ranger raids behind Union lines in Virginia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John S. Mosby canonical | 1 |
| John Singleton Mosby | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051013 — 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: John S. Mosby Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, John S. Mosby]
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A.
J.E.B. Stuart
J.E.B. Stuart was a famed Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, renowned for his bold reconnaissance and raiding operations.
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B.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan was a famed American Revolutionary War general and frontiersman best known for his leadership of riflemen and decisive victory at the Battle of Cowpens.
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C.
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder was a Republican political operative and Nixon administration official best known for his role in the Watergate scandal and involvement with the Committee to Re-elect the President.
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D.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was a renowned Confederate general celebrated for his tactical brilliance and pivotal battlefield leadership during the American Civil War.
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E.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
- 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: John S. Mosby Target entity description: John S. Mosby was a famed Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, best known for leading partisan ranger raids behind Union lines in Virginia.
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A.
J.E.B. Stuart
J.E.B. Stuart was a famed Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, renowned for his bold reconnaissance and raiding operations.
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B.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan was a famed American Revolutionary War general and frontiersman best known for his leadership of riflemen and decisive victory at the Battle of Cowpens.
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C.
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder was a Republican political operative and Nixon administration official best known for his role in the Watergate scandal and involvement with the Committee to Re-elect the President.
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D.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was a renowned Confederate general celebrated for his tactical brilliance and pivotal battlefield leadership during the American Civil War.
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E.
Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: John S. Mosby Description of subject: John S. Mosby was a famed Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, best known for leading partisan ranger raids behind Union lines in Virginia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Singleton Mosby