Barry St. Leger
E287580
Barry St. Leger was a British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the 1777 expedition against Fort Stanwix as part of the Saratoga campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barry St. Leger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2688040 — 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: Barry St. Leger Context triple: [Battle of Oriskany, commander, Barry St. Leger]
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A.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
Sylvester Keliher
Sylvester Keliher was a prominent labor leader associated with the American Railway Union, an influential early industrial union in the United States.
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D.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
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E.
John Bunn
John Bunn was an American basketball coach and administrator known for his influential roles in college basketball and contributions to the sport’s development.
- 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: Barry St. Leger Target entity description: Barry St. Leger was a British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the 1777 expedition against Fort Stanwix as part of the Saratoga campaign.
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A.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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B.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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C.
Sylvester Keliher
Sylvester Keliher was a prominent labor leader associated with the American Railway Union, an influential early industrial union in the United States.
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D.
John Blatchley
John Blatchley was a British theatre director and educator best known as a co-founder of the influential Drama Centre London acting school.
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E.
John Bunn
John Bunn was an American basketball coach and administrator known for his influential roles in college basketball and contributions to the sport’s development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| commanded | British forces in the 1777 expedition against Fort Stanwix ⓘ |
| conflict |
Saratoga campaign
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Siege of Fort Stanwix ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| goal |
to capture Fort Stanwix
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to support Burgoyne’s advance in the Saratoga campaign ⓘ |
| locationOfActivity |
Fort Stanwix
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New York ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | British Crown ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Siege and failed capture of Fort Stanwix in 1777 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1777 expedition against Fort Stanwix
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role in the Saratoga campaign ⓘ |
| opponent |
American revolutionaries
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Continental Army ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| partOf |
British campaign from Canada in 1777
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Saratoga campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Saratoga campaign operations from the west
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| role | expedition leader ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Great Britain ⓘ |
| yearOfActivity | 1777 ⓘ |
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: Barry St. Leger Description of subject: Barry St. Leger was a British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the 1777 expedition against Fort Stanwix as part of the Saratoga campaign.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.