Geronimo
E170984
Geronimo was a prominent 19th-century Apache leader and warrior known for his resistance against U.S. and Mexican military campaigns in the American Southwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geronimo canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1488809 — 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: Geronimo Context triple: [Fort Sill, Oklahoma, historicallyAssociatedWith, Geronimo]
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A.
Cochise
"Cochise" is a hard-hitting 2002 rock song by Audioslave, featuring Chris Cornell’s powerful vocals and Tom Morello’s distinctive guitar work, and is best known as the band’s debut single.
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B.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud was a prominent Oglala Lakota (Sioux) war leader and statesman best known for successfully leading resistance against U.S. military expansion during Red Cloud’s War in the late 1860s.
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C.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was a renowned Oglala Lakota war leader known for his role in resisting U.S. expansion, including his leadership at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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D.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is a famous Parisian cabaret known for its avant-garde, artistically choreographed nude performances and distinctive use of lighting and staging.
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E.
Cochise (Apache leader)
Cochise (Apache leader) was a prominent 19th-century Chiricahua Apache chief known for his leadership in resisting U.S. and Mexican expansion into Apache territories in the American Southwest.
- 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: Geronimo Target entity description: Geronimo was a prominent 19th-century Apache leader and warrior known for his resistance against U.S. and Mexican military campaigns in the American Southwest.
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A.
Cochise
"Cochise" is a hard-hitting 2002 rock song by Audioslave, featuring Chris Cornell’s powerful vocals and Tom Morello’s distinctive guitar work, and is best known as the band’s debut single.
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B.
Red Cloud
Red Cloud was a prominent Oglala Lakota (Sioux) war leader and statesman best known for successfully leading resistance against U.S. military expansion during Red Cloud’s War in the late 1860s.
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C.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is a famous Parisian cabaret known for its avant-garde, artistically choreographed nude performances and distinctive use of lighting and staging.
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D.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was a renowned Oglala Lakota war leader known for his role in resisting U.S. expansion, including his leadership at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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E.
Cochise (Apache leader)
Cochise (Apache leader) was a prominent 19th-century Chiricahua Apache chief known for his leadership in resisting U.S. and Mexican expansion into Apache territories in the American Southwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apache leader
ⓘ
human ⓘ military leader ⓘ resistance leader ⓘ warrior ⓘ |
| birthName |
Goyaałé
ⓘ
Goyathlay ⓘ |
| birthNameMeaning | the one who yawns ⓘ |
| conflict |
Apache Wars
ⓘ
Yaqui Wars ⓘ
surface form:
Mexican–Apache conflicts
U.S.–Apache conflicts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalDepiction |
subject of films and television portrayals
ⓘ
subject of numerous books ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Apache ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| laterReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| laterResidence | Fort Sill, Oklahoma ⓘ |
| militaryTactic | guerrilla warfare ⓘ |
| name | Geronimo self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage |
Apache
ⓘ
surface form:
Apache languages
|
| notableFor |
leading Apache resistance against U.S. military campaigns
ⓘ
raids and guerrilla warfare in the American Southwest ⓘ resistance to Mexican military campaigns ⓘ |
| notableWork | autobiographical accounts dictated to S. M. Barrett ⓘ |
| occupation |
medicine man
ⓘ
military strategist ⓘ war leader ⓘ |
| opponent |
Armed Forces of Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexican Army
Mexican settlers ⓘ U.S. settlers ⓘ United States Army ⓘ |
| participatedInEvent |
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
ⓘ
surface form:
1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 inaugural parade ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention |
Fort Pickens
ⓘ
Fort Sill, Oklahoma ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Sill
|
| regionOfActivity |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
Arizona Territory ⓘ Northern Mexico ⓘ
surface form:
northern Mexico
|
| religion | traditional Apache beliefs ⓘ |
| statusAfterSurrender | prisoner of war ⓘ |
| subgroup | Bedonkohe band ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo |
Nelson A. Miles
ⓘ
surface form:
General Nelson A. Miles
United States Army ⓘ |
| surrenderEvent | final surrender in 1886 ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Native American resistance
ⓘ
indigenous resistance to colonization ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliation | Chiricahua Apache ⓘ |
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: Geronimo Description of subject: Geronimo was a prominent 19th-century Apache leader and warrior known for his resistance against U.S. and Mexican military campaigns in the American Southwest.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.