Samuel Arnold

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Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Label Occurrences
Samuel Arnold canonical 10

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American Civil War figure
person
associatedWith Confederate cause
Lincoln assassination conspirators
associatedWithEvent conspiracy surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln
burialPlace Baltimore
surface form: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
chargedWith conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
conspiredWith David Herold
Dr. Samuel Mudd
George Atzerodt
John Wilkes Booth
Lewis Powell
Mary Surratt
Michael O'Laughlen
surface form: Michael O’Laughlen
convictedOf conspiracy in connection with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
familyName Arnold
gender male
givenName Samuel
hasEthnicity white American
historicalPeriod 19th century
imprisonedAt Florida Keys
surface form: Dry Tortugas, Florida

Fort Jefferson
knownFor being one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators
languageSpoken English
legalStatusDuringWar Confederate supporter in Union territory
militaryConflict American Civil War
name Samuel Arnold self-link
nationality American
notableFor involvement in a conspiracy with John Wilkes Booth
role in an early plot connected to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
occupation clerk
pardonReceivedFrom Andrew Johnson
surface form: President Andrew Johnson
partOf Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
surface form: Booth conspiracy network
placeOfBirth near Baltimore, Maryland, United States
placeOfDeath Baltimore
surface form: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
politicalAlignment Confederate sympathizer
roleInConspiracy later implicated in the broader Lincoln assassination conspiracy
participant in John Wilkes Booth’s kidnap plot against Abraham Lincoln
sentence life imprisonment
servedIn Confederate States Army
surface form: Confederate Army
subjectOf United States Civil War-era legal records
historical studies on the Lincoln assassination
triedBy United States military commission

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: Samuel Arnold
Description of subject: Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

George Atzerodt conspiredWith Samuel Arnold
David Herold coConspiratorWith Samuel Arnold
Michael O'Laughlen knownAssociate Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold name Samuel Arnold self-link
Atzerodt conspiredWith Samuel Arnold
subject surface form: George Atzerodt
Lewis Powell coConspirator Samuel Arnold
David Edgar Herold coConspiratorWith Samuel Arnold