Henry Lee III
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Henry Lee III, also known as "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, was an American Revolutionary War cavalry officer, early U.S. politician, and the ninth Governor of Virginia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Lee III canonical | 25 |
| Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T185956 — 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: Henry Lee III Context triple: [Robert E. Lee, father, Henry Lee III]
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A.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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B.
Thomas Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax was a prominent 17th-century English general who led Parliament’s New Model Army to key victories during the English Civil War.
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C.
Robert Ross
Robert Ross was a British Army major general best known for leading the successful land attack on Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, which resulted in the burning of several U.S. public buildings.
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D.
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who controlled vast estates in colonial Virginia and played a significant role in the region’s early development.
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E.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil 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: Henry Lee III Target entity description: Henry Lee III, also known as "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, was an American Revolutionary War cavalry officer, early U.S. politician, and the ninth Governor of Virginia.
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A.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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B.
Thomas Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax was a prominent 17th-century English general who led Parliament’s New Model Army to key victories during the English Civil War.
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C.
Robert Ross
Robert Ross was a British Army major general best known for leading the successful land attack on Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, which resulted in the burning of several U.S. public buildings.
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D.
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who controlled vast estates in colonial Virginia and played a significant role in the region’s early development.
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E.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Henry Lee III Description of subject: Henry Lee III, also known as "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, was an American Revolutionary War cavalry officer, early U.S. politician, and the ninth Governor of Virginia.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee
subject surface form:
Battle of Paulus Hook