George Harris
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George Harris was a British Army general best known for leading the successful campaign against Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Harris canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2801846 — 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: George Harris Context triple: [Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, opposingCommander, George Harris]
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A.
George Harris
George Harris is a British actor known for his work in theatre, film, and television, including roles in major stage productions and popular screen franchises.
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B.
George Harris
George Harris is a courageous, intelligent enslaved man in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" who escapes bondage and becomes a symbol of resistance to slavery.
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C.
William Harris
William Harris was a historical English church musician who served in the prestigious role of Master of the Children, overseeing and training choristers.
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
James Haygood
James Haygood is a film editor known for his work on major feature films and commercials, including editing the thriller "Panic Room."
- 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: George Harris Target entity description: George Harris was a British Army general best known for leading the successful campaign against Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in India.
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A.
George Harris
George Harris is a courageous, intelligent enslaved man in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" who escapes bondage and becomes a symbol of resistance to slavery.
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B.
George Harris
George Harris is a British actor known for his work in theatre, film, and television, including roles in major stage productions and popular screen franchises.
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C.
William Harris
William Harris was a historical English church musician who served in the prestigious role of Master of the Children, overseeing and training choristers.
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D.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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E.
James Haygood
James Haygood is a film editor known for his work on major feature films and commercials, including editing the thriller "Panic Room."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | British Empire ⓘ |
| battle |
Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
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surface form:
Siege of Seringapatam
|
| causeOfFame | success in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ⓘ |
| conflict | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | British colonial expansion in India ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryCampaign |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
ⓘ
surface form:
British conquest of Mysore
|
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the British forces against Tipu Sultan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
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surface form:
Campaign against Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
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| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opponent | Tipu Sultan ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
India
ⓘ
Mysuru ⓘ
surface form:
Mysore
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| positionHeld | commander of British forces in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ⓘ |
| victory | defeat of Tipu Sultan ⓘ |
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: George Harris Description of subject: George Harris was a British Army general best known for leading the successful campaign against Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in India.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.