Alvan C. Gillem
E276133
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alvan C. Gillem canonical | 1 |
| Alvan C. Gillem Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2268482 — 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: Alvan C. Gillem Context triple: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Alvan C. Gillem]
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A.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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B.
Edward R. S. Canby
Edward R. S. Canby was a U.S. Army general best known for his service in the American Civil War and for being the only general officer killed during the Indian Wars, during peace negotiations in the Modoc War.
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C.
Lyman J. Gage
Lyman J. Gage was an American banker and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
William H. Stokes
William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
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E.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
- 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: Alvan C. Gillem Target entity description: Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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A.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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B.
Edward R. S. Canby
Edward R. S. Canby was a U.S. Army general best known for his service in the American Civil War and for being the only general officer killed during the Indian Wars, during peace negotiations in the Modoc War.
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C.
Lyman J. Gage
Lyman J. Gage was an American banker and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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D.
William H. Stokes
William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
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E.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War veteran
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Union Army general ⓘ United States Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
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United States–Native American wars ⓘ
surface form:
American Indian Wars
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Gillem ⓘ |
| givenName | Alvan ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading federal troops in campaigns against Native Americans in the West
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service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
command of U.S. Army troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West
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command of Union forces in East Tennessee during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Reconstruction-era military service in the South
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U.S. Army campaigns against Native American groups in the western United States ⓘ Union military operations in East Tennessee ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
U.S. Army officer in the post–Civil War West
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Union Army general officer ⓘ commander of Union forces in East Tennessee ⓘ |
| 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: Alvan C. Gillem Description of subject: Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alvan C. Gillem Jr.