Richard S. Ewell
E155984
Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard S. Ewell canonical | 14 |
| Richard Stoddert Ewell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051011 — 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: Richard S. Ewell Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Richard S. Ewell]
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A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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B.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.
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C.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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D.
Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
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E.
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
- 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: Richard S. Ewell Target entity description: Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
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A.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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B.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.
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C.
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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D.
Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
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E.
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Richard S. Ewell Description of subject: Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard Stoddert Ewell