Alvin C. York
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Alvin C. York was a highly decorated American World War I soldier renowned for his heroism in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and later celebrated as a national war hero.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alvin C. York canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356480 — 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: Alvin C. York Context triple: [Sergeant York, mainCharacter, Alvin C. York]
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A.
Sergeant York
Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
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B.
Charley Foy
Charley Foy was an American vaudeville performer and character actor, best known as one of the Seven Little Foys show-business family.
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C.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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D.
Joseph Milligan
Joseph Milligan is a musician best known as a guitarist for the American alternative rock band Anberlin.
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E.
George Tibbets
George Tibbets is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tibbets, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
- 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: Alvin C. York Target entity description: Alvin C. York was a highly decorated American World War I soldier renowned for his heroism in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and later celebrated as a national war hero.
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A.
Sergeant York
Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical war film about World War I hero Alvin C. York, renowned for its patriotic themes and Gary Cooper’s Academy Award-winning performance.
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B.
Charley Foy
Charley Foy was an American vaudeville performer and character actor, best known as one of the Seven Little Foys show-business family.
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C.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool was a United States Navy commander and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.
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D.
Joseph Milligan
Joseph Milligan is a musician best known as a guitarist for the American alternative rock band Anberlin.
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E.
George Tibbets
George Tibbets is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tibbets, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian
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United States Army soldier ⓘ World War I veteran ⓘ human ⓘ pacifist (former) ⓘ soldier ⓘ war hero ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Service Cross ⓘ Légion d'honneur ⓘ
surface form:
Legion of Honour
Medal of Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ War Medal 1914–1918 (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle | Meuse-Argonne Offensive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1887-12-13 ⓘ |
| birthName | Alvin Cullum York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Fentress County, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pall Mall, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Wolf River Cemetery, Pall Mall, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1964-09-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Nashville, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | American of English descent ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Sergeant York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
corporal
ⓘ
sergeant ⓘ |
| name | Alvin C. York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
capturing a large number of German soldiers in World War I
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heroism in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive ⓘ |
| notableWork | actions in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Gary Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Church of Christ in Christian Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence | Pall Mall, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Gracie Loretta Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Sergeant York (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unit |
328th Infantry Regiment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
82nd Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Alvin C. York Description of subject: Alvin C. York was a highly decorated American World War I soldier renowned for his heroism in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and later celebrated as a national war hero.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.