Jonathan M. Wainwright
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Jonathan M. Wainwright was a U.S. Army general in World War II best known for leading American and Filipino forces in the defense of the Philippines and later enduring captivity as a prisoner of war.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan M. Wainwright canonical | 14 |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I | 2 |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II | 2 |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright III | 2 |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140512 — 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: Jonathan M. Wainwright Context triple: [Philippines campaign (1941–1942), commandedBy, Jonathan M. Wainwright]
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A.
Miles Dempsey
Miles Dempsey was a British Army general in World War II, best known for leading the British Second Army in major campaigns across Northwest Europe.
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B.
James M. Gavin
James M. Gavin was a highly regarded U.S. Army lieutenant general and paratrooper commander in World War II, known for leading the 82nd Airborne Division in major European operations.
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C.
Maxwell D. Taylor
Maxwell D. Taylor was a prominent U.S. Army general and later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted for his leadership of airborne forces in World War II and his influential role in shaping Cold War military policy.
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D.
Matthew Ridgway
Matthew Ridgway was a highly respected U.S. Army general known for revitalizing United Nations forces and turning the tide during the Korean War.
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E.
Alexander Vandegrift
Alexander Vandegrift was a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps general best known for leading the 1st Marine Division to victory in the Guadalcanal Campaign during World War II and later serving as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
- 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: Jonathan M. Wainwright Target entity description: Jonathan M. Wainwright was a U.S. Army general in World War II best known for leading American and Filipino forces in the defense of the Philippines and later enduring captivity as a prisoner of war.
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A.
Miles Dempsey
Miles Dempsey was a British Army general in World War II, best known for leading the British Second Army in major campaigns across Northwest Europe.
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B.
James M. Gavin
James M. Gavin was a highly regarded U.S. Army lieutenant general and paratrooper commander in World War II, known for leading the 82nd Airborne Division in major European operations.
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C.
Maxwell D. Taylor
Maxwell D. Taylor was a prominent U.S. Army general and later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted for his leadership of airborne forces in World War II and his influential role in shaping Cold War military policy.
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D.
Matthew Ridgway
Matthew Ridgway was a highly respected U.S. Army general known for revitalizing United Nations forces and turning the tide during the Korean War.
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E.
Alexander Vandegrift
Alexander Vandegrift was a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps general best known for leading the 1st Marine Division to victory in the Guadalcanal Campaign during World War II and later serving as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
- 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: Jonathan M. Wainwright Description of subject: Jonathan M. Wainwright was a U.S. Army general in World War II best known for leading American and Filipino forces in the defense of the Philippines and later enduring captivity as a prisoner of war.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright III
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV
subject surface form:
USS Wainwright (DD-419)
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I
subject surface form:
USS Wainwright (DD-419)
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II
subject surface form:
USS Wainwright (DD-419)
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright III