Harold G. Kiner
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Harold G. Kiner was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold G. Kiner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407138 — 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: Harold G. Kiner Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, Harold G. Kiner]
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A.
Walter S. Gifford
Walter S. Gifford was an American businessman and executive who served as president of AT&T and held prominent government advisory roles, particularly during World War I and the interwar period.
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B.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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C.
John M. Stahl
John M. Stahl was an American film director and producer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood melodramas and adaptations, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
George L. Dahl
George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
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E.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
- 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: Harold G. Kiner Target entity description: Harold G. Kiner was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
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A.
Walter S. Gifford
Walter S. Gifford was an American businessman and executive who served as president of AT&T and held prominent government advisory roles, particularly during World War I and the interwar period.
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B.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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C.
John M. Stahl
John M. Stahl was an American film director and producer best known for his influential work in early Hollywood melodramas and adaptations, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
George L. Dahl
George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
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E.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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United States Army soldier ⓘ World War II veteran ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | combat-related death ⓘ |
| commemoratedAs | American World War II hero ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in action ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Kiner ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| hasHonor | United States highest military decoration for valor ⓘ |
| hasRank | Private ⓘ |
| honoredAt |
Netherlands American Cemetery
ⓘ
surface form:
Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial
|
| isPartOf | list of World War II Medal of Honor recipients ⓘ |
| medalOfHonorActionConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| memorializedIn | Medal of Honor citation ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
U.S. Army infantry
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | killed in action ⓘ |
| notableFor | sacrificing his life to save fellow soldiers by smothering a grenade ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Margraten, Netherlands
ⓘ
Netherlands American Cemetery ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Army service number (specific number not provided) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Harold G. Kiner Description of subject: Harold G. Kiner was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.