Montgomery C. Meigs
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Quartermaster General of the United States Army
Union Army general
United States Army officer
architect
civil engineer
human
military engineer
Montgomery C. Meigs was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and engineer who served as Quartermaster General during the Civil War and became a prominent architect and administrator in Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montgomery C. Meigs canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3554283 — 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: Montgomery C. Meigs Context triple: [Pension Building, architect, Montgomery C. Meigs]
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A.
Alvan C. Gillem
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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B.
James B. Rhoads
James B. Rhoads was an American archivist and historian who served as the fifth Archivist of the United States, overseeing the National Archives during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was a 19th-century United States Army officer and engineer best known for his service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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D.
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
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E.
Samuel L. M. Barlow
Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
- 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: Montgomery C. Meigs Target entity description: Montgomery C. Meigs was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and engineer who served as Quartermaster General during the Civil War and became a prominent architect and administrator in Washington, D.C.
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A.
Alvan C. Gillem
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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B.
James B. Rhoads
James B. Rhoads was an American archivist and historian who served as the fifth Archivist of the United States, overseeing the National Archives during the late 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was a 19th-century United States Army officer and engineer best known for his service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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D.
Josiah Parsons Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
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E.
Samuel L. M. Barlow
Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quartermaster General of the United States Army
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Union Army general ⓘ United States Army officer ⓘ architect ⓘ civil engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military engineer ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| child | John Rodgers Meigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1816-05-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1892-01-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| endTime | 1882 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Welsh descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Meigs ⓘ |
| father | Charles Delucena Meigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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civil engineering ⓘ military logistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Montgomery ⓘ |
| memberOf |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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surface form:
United States Army Corps of Engineers
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| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brevet major general
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brigadier general ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
oversaw Union Army supply and logistics during the American Civil War
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selected Robert E. Lee’s Arlington estate as site for a national military cemetery ⓘ |
| notableWork |
construction supervision of the wings and dome of the United States Capitol
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design and construction of the Pension Building (now the National Building Museum) ⓘ design of the Washington Aqueduct ⓘ development of Arlington National Cemetery as a military cemetery ⓘ engineering of the Cabin John Bridge ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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engineer ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Augusta, Georgia ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Quartermaster General of the United States Army ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Louisa Rodgers Meigs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1861 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Montgomery C. Meigs Description of subject: Montgomery C. Meigs was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and engineer who served as Quartermaster General during the Civil War and became a prominent architect and administrator in Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pension Building