Andrew A. Humphreys
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Andrew A. Humphreys was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later served as Chief of Engineers, recognized for his contributions to military engineering and topographical surveys.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew A. Humphreys canonical | 5 |
| Andrew Atkinson Humphreys | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1915431 — 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: Andrew A. Humphreys Context triple: [Humphreys Peak, namedAfter, Andrew A. Humphreys]
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A.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
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B.
Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his cautious leadership in the Western Theater and his controversial role in several key campaigns.
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C.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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D.
John Schofield
John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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E.
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.
- 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: Andrew A. Humphreys Target entity description: Andrew A. Humphreys was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later served as Chief of Engineers, recognized for his contributions to military engineering and topographical surveys.
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A.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a prominent Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a Democratic presidential nominee in the 1880 United States election.
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B.
Don Carlos Buell
Don Carlos Buell was a Union major general in the American Civil War, noted for his cautious leadership in the Western Theater and his controversial role in several key campaigns.
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C.
John D. Schofield
John D. Schofield is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the World War II drama "Enemy at the Gates."
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D.
John Schofield
John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Union Army general
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United States Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ military engineer ⓘ topographical engineer ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union
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United States of America ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
military engineering projects
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military operations ⓘ topographical mapping ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Humphreys ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military engineering
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topographical surveying ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
recognition for Civil War service as a Union general
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recognition for contributions to U.S. military engineering ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
engineer
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soldier ⓘ topographical engineer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
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major general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to topographical surveys
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leadership as Chief of Engineers ⓘ service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
United States Army surveyors
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surface form:
United States Army engineering and survey reports
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| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
U.S. Army Chief of Engineers
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surface form:
Chief of Engineers of the United States Army
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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: Andrew A. Humphreys Description of subject: Andrew A. Humphreys was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later served as Chief of Engineers, recognized for his contributions to military engineering and topographical surveys.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
subject surface form:
Fighting at the Peach Orchard