W. H. F. Lee
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W. H. F. Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War and the second son of General Robert E. Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| W. H. F. Lee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5077126 — 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: W. H. F. Lee Context triple: [William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, alsoKnownAs, W. H. F. Lee]
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W. K. Pendleton
W. K. Pendleton was a 19th-century American Restoration Movement leader and educator closely associated with Alexander Campbell and the publication of The Millennial Harbinger.
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B.
Irvine Stephens Bulloch
Irvine Stephens Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and the uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his service as a commerce raider during the American Civil War.
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C.
Emory S. Land
Emory S. Land was a U.S. naval officer and engineer best known for overseeing submarine construction and serving as a key maritime administrator during World War II.
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D.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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E.
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler was a prominent American military officer who served as a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and later as a U.S. Army general in the Spanish–American War.
- 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: W. H. F. Lee Target entity description: W. H. F. Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War and the second son of General Robert E. Lee.
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A.
W. K. Pendleton
W. K. Pendleton was a 19th-century American Restoration Movement leader and educator closely associated with Alexander Campbell and the publication of The Millennial Harbinger.
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B.
Irvine Stephens Bulloch
Irvine Stephens Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and the uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his service as a commerce raider during the American Civil War.
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C.
Emory S. Land
Emory S. Land was a U.S. naval officer and engineer best known for overseeing submarine construction and serving as a key maritime administrator during World War II.
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D.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
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E.
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler was a prominent American military officer who served as a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and later as a U.S. Army general in the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate States Army general
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human ⓘ |
| alias | Rooney Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1837-05-31 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Arlington House
NERFINISHED
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Arlington, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lee Chapel, Lexington, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedAt | Battle of Brandy Station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded | Lee's Division (Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1891-10-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| electedFrom | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | William Henry Fitzhugh Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| heldAsPrisonerBy | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| middleName | Henry Fitzhugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Anna Custis Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Brandy Station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Chancellorsville NERFINISHED ⓘ Overland Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
planter ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ |
| releasedFromCaptivity | 1864 ⓘ |
| residence |
Burke's Station, Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ravensworth plantation, Fairfax County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Army of Northern Virginia
NERFINISHED
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U.S. 6th Infantry Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anne Carter Lee
NERFINISHED
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Eleanor Agnes Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ George Washington Custis Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Custis Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Mildred Childe Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ William H. Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee (self-reference note: omit) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charlotte Wickham
NERFINISHED
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Mary Tabb Bolling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: W. H. F. Lee Description of subject: W. H. F. Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War and the second son of General Robert E. Lee.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.