Ulysses S. Grant
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President of the United States
Union Army general
autobiographer
human
lawyer
military officer
politician
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11781 — 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: Ulysses S. Grant Context triple: [Gilded Age, notablePoliticalFigure, Ulysses S. Grant]
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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C.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, known for his progressive reforms, trust-busting policies, and leadership in conservation and American imperial expansion.
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D.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
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E.
James Madison
James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- 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: Ulysses S. Grant Target entity description: Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
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A.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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B.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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C.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, known for his progressive reforms, trust-busting policies, and leadership in conservation and American imperial expansion.
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D.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and a leading political figure of the Southern secessionist cause.
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E.
James Madison
James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Ulysses S. Grant Description of subject: Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
Referenced by (245)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Joseph Hooker
subject surface form:
Grant's Tomb
subject surface form:
Grant's Tomb
subject surface form:
Grant's Tomb
subject surface form:
Ward Hunt
subject surface form:
Ward Hunt
subject surface form:
Mathew Brady
this entity surface form:
General Ulysses S. Grant
subject surface form:
Schuyler Colfax
subject surface form:
Schuyler Colfax