John Gibbon
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John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Gibbon canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2265058 — 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: John Gibbon Context triple: [Nez Perce War, opposedBy, John Gibbon]
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A.
Peter M. Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Boston Scientific and a major benefactor of environmental education and research.
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B.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
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C.
Warren Spady
Warren Spady is a designer best known for creating the trophy awarded in the historic Oregon–Oregon State college football rivalry.
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D.
John Ferrell
John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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E.
Stephen Heard
Stephen Heard was an American Revolutionary War officer and politician who served as governor of Georgia in the late 18th century.
- 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: John Gibbon Target entity description: John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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A.
Peter M. Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Boston Scientific and a major benefactor of environmental education and research.
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B.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
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C.
Warren Spady
Warren Spady is a designer best known for creating the trophy awarded in the historic Oregon–Oregon State college football rivalry.
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D.
John Ferrell
John Ferrell was a photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, contributing documentary images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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E.
Stephen Heard
Stephen Heard was an American Revolutionary War officer and politician who served as governor of Georgia in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War general
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Union Army general ⓘ United States Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
ⓘ
United States–Native American wars ⓘ
surface form:
Indian Wars
Nez Perce War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Gibbon ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| historicalRegionOfActivity |
Old West
ⓘ
surface form:
American West
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Union Army
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United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRole | field commander ⓘ |
| name | John Gibbon self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command in campaigns against the Nez Perce
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role in the Indian Wars in the American West ⓘ service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Plains Indian Wars
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surface form:
Indian Wars in the Northwestern United States
campaigns against the Nez Perce ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
general in the Union Army
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officer in the United States Army ⓘ |
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: John Gibbon Description of subject: John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.