Theophilus H. Holmes
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Theophilus H. Holmes was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several high-level commands, including leadership roles in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theophilus H. Holmes canonical | 3 |
| Theophilus Hunter Holmes | 1 |
| Theophilus Hunter Holmes Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1051023 — 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: Theophilus H. Holmes Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Theophilus H. Holmes]
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A.
Thomas J. Holmes
Thomas J. Holmes was a notable figure after whom Holmes County in Florida was named, likely recognized for his influence or contributions to the region’s early history or development.
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B.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
George A. Soper
George A. Soper was an American sanitary engineer and public health official, best known for his work in epidemiology and his role in founding the American Cancer Society.
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D.
Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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E.
Henry J. F. Brown
Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
- 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: Theophilus H. Holmes Target entity description: Theophilus H. Holmes was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several high-level commands, including leadership roles in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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A.
Thomas J. Holmes
Thomas J. Holmes was a notable figure after whom Holmes County in Florida was named, likely recognized for his influence or contributions to the region’s early history or development.
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B.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
George A. Soper
George A. Soper was an American sanitary engineer and public health official, best known for his work in epidemiology and his role in founding the American Cancer Society.
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D.
Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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E.
Henry J. F. Brown
Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Theophilus H. Holmes Description of subject: Theophilus H. Holmes was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several high-level commands, including leadership roles in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
this entity surface form:
Theophilus Hunter Holmes Jr.