Ellis Spear
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Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ellis Spear canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5150103 — 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: Ellis Spear Context triple: [20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Ellis Spear]
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A.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
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B.
Ellis Bell
Ellis Bell is the pseudonym used by English novelist Emily Brontë, best known for writing the classic Gothic novel "Wuthering Heights."
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C.
Elliott Wheeler
Elliott Wheeler is an Australian composer and music producer known for his work on film and television scores, including the 2022 biographical musical film "Elvis."
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D.
Roswell Smith
Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
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E.
Theodate Pope Riddle
Theodate Pope Riddle was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the United States.
- 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: Ellis Spear Target entity description: Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
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A.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
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B.
Ellis Bell
Ellis Bell is the pseudonym used by English novelist Emily Brontë, best known for writing the classic Gothic novel "Wuthering Heights."
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C.
Elliott Wheeler
Elliott Wheeler is an Australian composer and music producer known for his work on film and television scores, including the 2022 biographical musical film "Elvis."
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D.
Roswell Smith
Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
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E.
Theodate Pope Riddle
Theodate Pope Riddle was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War veteran
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Union Army officer ⓘ person ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Union
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Chancellorsville
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Fredericksburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Spotsylvania Court House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1834-10-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Warren, Maine, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brevetPromotion | brigadier general of volunteers ⓘ |
| commissionedAs | captain in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1917-04-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Washington, D.C., United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Bowdoin College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | United States Patent Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Spear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Ellis Spear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
postwar legal and public service career
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role at the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ service with the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brevet brigadier general
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colonel ⓘ |
| notableWork | Civil War reminiscences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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patent official ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Republican Party
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surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| positionHeld | United States Commissioner of Patents NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promotedTo |
colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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lieutenant colonel in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment ⓘ major in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| servedIn | 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Charlotte Thompson Spear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unitRoleAtGettysburg | defense of Little Round Top ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
20th Maine at Gettysburg
NERFINISHED
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine ⓘ |
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: Ellis Spear Description of subject: Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.