William N. R. Beall
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William N. R. Beall was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Western Theater, including at Port Hudson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William N. R. Beall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4455649 — 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: William N. R. Beall Context triple: [Battle of Port Hudson, commander, William N. R. Beall]
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A.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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B.
Franklin H. Martin
Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
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C.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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D.
Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
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E.
Thomas Prosser
Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
- 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: William N. R. Beall Target entity description: William N. R. Beall was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Western Theater, including at Port Hudson.
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A.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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B.
Franklin H. Martin
Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
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C.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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D.
Edwin E. Witte
Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
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E.
Thomas Prosser
Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate Army general
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| commandedAt | Port Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName | Beall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | CSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| involvedInSiege | Siege of Port Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| militaryRole | officer ⓘ |
| militaryTheater | Western Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership at Port Hudson
ⓘ
service in the Western Theater of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notedFor | leadership in Confederate forces at Port Hudson ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs | Confederate brigadier general ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Western Theater of the American Civil War 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: William N. R. Beall Description of subject: William N. R. Beall was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Western Theater, including at Port Hudson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.