Earl Van Dorn
E165033
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earl Van Dorn canonical | 7 |
| Van Dorn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051022 — 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: Earl Van Dorn Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Earl Van Dorn]
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A.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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B.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
- 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: Earl Van Dorn Target entity description: Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
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A.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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B.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Earl Van Dorn Description of subject: Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Van Dorn