William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold
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William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on New London, Connecticut.
All labels observed (1)
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| William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478357 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold Context triple: [British raid on New London, Connecticut, opponentCommander, William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold]
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Benedict Arnold III
Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
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B.
William Coddington
William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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C.
Henry Atkinson – United States forces
Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading American forces against Black Hawk’s band during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
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D.
Commodore John Barry
Commodore John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer often regarded as a founding father of the United States Navy for his leadership and service during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold Target entity description: William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on New London, Connecticut.
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A.
Benedict Arnold III
Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
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B.
William Coddington
William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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C.
Henry Atkinson – United States forces
Henry Atkinson was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading American forces against Black Hawk’s band during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
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D.
Commodore John Barry
Commodore John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer often regarded as a founding father of the United States Navy for his leadership and service during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold Description of subject: William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on New London, Connecticut.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
British raid on New London, Connecticut
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opponentCommander
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William Ledyard was the American commander at Fort Griswold
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