David Bailey
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David Bailey was a 19th-century American militia officer best known for his leadership role in the Black Hawk War, particularly at the Battle of Stillman’s Run.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Bailey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1311168 — 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: David Bailey Context triple: [Battle of Stillman’s Run, commander, David Bailey]
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A.
Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey is an American biographer best known for his extensively researched and critically acclaimed biographies of major literary figures such as John Cheever and Philip Roth.
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B.
Richard Baker
Richard Baker is an American businessman and real estate investor best known as the governor and executive chairman of Hudson’s Bay Company.
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C.
Ian Black
Ian Black is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British journalist and author known for his work on Middle Eastern affairs.
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D.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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E.
Anthony Quayle
Anthony Quayle was a British actor and director known for his distinguished stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles in mid-20th-century cinema.
- 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: David Bailey Target entity description: David Bailey was a 19th-century American militia officer best known for his leadership role in the Black Hawk War, particularly at the Battle of Stillman’s Run.
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A.
Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey is an American biographer best known for his extensively researched and critically acclaimed biographies of major literary figures such as John Cheever and Philip Roth.
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B.
Richard Baker
Richard Baker is an American businessman and real estate investor best known as the governor and executive chairman of Hudson’s Bay Company.
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C.
Ian Black
Ian Black is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British journalist and author known for his work on Middle Eastern affairs.
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D.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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E.
Anthony Quayle
Anthony Quayle was a British actor and director known for his distinguished stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles in mid-20th-century cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American militia officer
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | early defeat of U.S. militia at Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople |
Black Hawk
ⓘ
Illinois militia ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois militia volunteers
|
| conflict | Black Hawk War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasOccupation |
militia officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| historicalCategory | Black Hawk War figures ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Antebellum period
ⓘ
surface form:
Antebellum United States
|
| knownFor |
leadership role in the Black Hawk War
ⓘ
role at the Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Illinois militia ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| militaryTheater | Old Northwest ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableBattle | Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| participatedIn | campaigns against Black Hawk’s band ⓘ |
| partOf | Illinois territorial and state militia tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Illinois ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| roleDuringBlackHawkWar | militia leader ⓘ |
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: David Bailey Description of subject: David Bailey was a 19th-century American militia officer best known for his leadership role in the Black Hawk War, particularly at the Battle of Stillman’s Run.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.