Major General John Sullivan
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Major General John Sullivan was an American Revolutionary War officer and statesman from New Hampshire who served as a general in the Continental Army and later as a political leader, including governor of New Hampshire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| General John Sullivan | 1 |
| Major General John Sullivan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4730295 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General John Sullivan Context triple: [Sullivan County, New Hampshire, namedAfter, Major General John Sullivan]
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Major Dunwoodie
Major Dunwoodie is a principled American cavalry officer in James Fenimore Cooper’s Revolutionary War novel "The Spy," known for his loyalty, honor, and romantic involvement amid espionage and conflict.
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B.
Colonel William Ledyard
Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
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C.
Josiah Harmar
Josiah Harmar was an early U.S. Army officer and Revolutionary War veteran best known for leading a failed 1790 campaign against Native American confederacies in the Northwest Indian War.
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D.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne was a British army officer and politician best known for his role as a general during the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
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E.
Edward Braddock
Edward Braddock was an 18th-century British Army general best known for his disastrous defeat during the French and Indian War near present-day Pittsburgh.
- 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: Major General John Sullivan Target entity description: Major General John Sullivan was an American Revolutionary War officer and statesman from New Hampshire who served as a general in the Continental Army and later as a political leader, including governor of New Hampshire.
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A.
Major Dunwoodie
Major Dunwoodie is a principled American cavalry officer in James Fenimore Cooper’s Revolutionary War novel "The Spy," known for his loyalty, honor, and romantic involvement amid espionage and conflict.
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B.
Colonel William Ledyard
Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
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C.
Josiah Harmar
Josiah Harmar was an early U.S. Army officer and Revolutionary War veteran best known for leading a failed 1790 campaign against Native American confederacies in the Northwest Indian War.
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D.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne was a British army officer and politician best known for his role as a general during the American Revolutionary War, particularly his surrender at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.
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E.
Edward Braddock
Edward Braddock was an 18th-century British Army general best known for his disastrous defeat during the French and Indian War near present-day Pittsburgh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War general
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1740-02-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1795-01-23 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John Owen Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Continental Congress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Second Continental Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| mother | Margery Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of the 1779 Sullivan Expedition
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leadership as a Continental Army general ⓘ service as governor of New Hampshire ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participantIn |
American Revolutionary War
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Long Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Princeton NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Trenton NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ Sullivan Expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Province of New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
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Somersworth, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Durham, New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Governor of New Hampshire ⓘ Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire ⓘ President of New Hampshire ⓘ Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| represented | New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Durham, New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
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Somersworth, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lydia Remick Worster 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: Major General John Sullivan Description of subject: Major General John Sullivan was an American Revolutionary War officer and statesman from New Hampshire who served as a general in the Continental Army and later as a political leader, including governor of New Hampshire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle Pass (Prospect Park)
this entity surface form:
General John Sullivan