Benedict Arnold III
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Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benedict Arnold | 4 |
| Benedict Arnold III canonical | 2 |
| Benedict Arnold II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T439990 — 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: Benedict Arnold III Context triple: [Benedict Arnold, parent, Benedict Arnold III]
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A.
Benedict Arnold V
Benedict Arnold V was an American Revolutionary War general whose name became synonymous with treason after he defected to the British.
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B.
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was an American Revolutionary War general best known for defecting to the British and becoming synonymous with treason in the United States.
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C.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
- 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: Benedict Arnold III Target entity description: Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
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A.
Benedict Arnold V
Benedict Arnold V was an American Revolutionary War general whose name became synonymous with treason after he defected to the British.
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B.
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was an American Revolutionary War general best known for defecting to the British and becoming synonymous with treason in the United States.
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C.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonist of the Thirteen Colonies
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| chronologicalPlacement | colonial American period ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Connecticut Colony
ⓘ
surface form:
Colony of Connecticut
|
| ethnicGroup |
English American
ⓘ
surface form:
English Americans
|
| familyName | Arnold ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| givenName | Benedict ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Arnold family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of American Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold
ⓘ
membership in a prominent colonial New England family ⓘ |
| notableWork | involvement in colonial New England trade ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ |
| partOf |
New England Colonies
ⓘ
surface form:
colonial New England society
|
| placeOfBirth | Norwich, Colony of Connecticut ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Norwich, Colony of Connecticut ⓘ |
| positionHeld | selectman of Norwich ⓘ |
| relative | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence | Norwich, Colony of Connecticut ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | colonial elite ⓘ |
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: Benedict Arnold III Description of subject: Benedict Arnold III was the father of American Revolutionary War general and infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, belonging to a prominent colonial New England family.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Benedict Arnold
this entity surface form:
Benedict Arnold
this entity surface form:
Benedict Arnold
this entity surface form:
Benedict Arnold II
this entity surface form:
Benedict Arnold