James S. Wadsworth
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James S. Wadsworth was a 19th-century American military officer and political figure, notably a Union general in the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James S. Wadsworth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6188692 — 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: James S. Wadsworth Context triple: [Wadsworth, Nevada, namedAfter, James S. Wadsworth]
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A.
James W. Wadsworth Jr.
James W. Wadsworth Jr. was an American Republican politician and U.S. Representative from New York known for his leadership on military preparedness and sponsorship of early peacetime conscription legislation.
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B.
William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
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C.
Felix Grundy
Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
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D.
William H. Huyler
William H. Huyler was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey in the late 19th century.
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E.
Benjamin Ely
Benjamin Ely was an influential figure whose ideas and work helped shape the thought and career of educator and women's education pioneer Sophia Smith.
- 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: James S. Wadsworth Target entity description: James S. Wadsworth was a 19th-century American military officer and political figure, notably a Union general in the Civil War.
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A.
James W. Wadsworth Jr.
James W. Wadsworth Jr. was an American Republican politician and U.S. Representative from New York known for his leadership on military preparedness and sponsorship of early peacetime conscription legislation.
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B.
William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
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C.
Felix Grundy
Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
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D.
William H. Huyler
William H. Huyler was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey in the late 19th century.
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E.
Benjamin Ely
Benjamin Ely was an influential figure whose ideas and work helped shape the thought and career of educator and women's education pioneer Sophia Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Union Army general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1807-10-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Geneseo, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | wounds received in battle ⓘ |
| child | James Wolcott Wadsworth Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1864-05-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Spotsylvania County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wadsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | James Wadsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Samuel Wadsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| honor | brevet promotion to major general of volunteers ⓘ |
| ideology | abolitionism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
abolitionist views
ⓘ
leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York aristocracy ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brevet major general
ⓘ
brigadier general ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | none ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Chancellorsville
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Fredericksburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Spotsylvania Court House NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Wilderness NERFINISHED ⓘ First Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Free Soil Party
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Union Army corps commander
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Union Army division commander ⓘ military governor of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| residence | Geneseo, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Craig Wharton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfPoliticalActivity | New York 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: James S. Wadsworth Description of subject: James S. Wadsworth was a 19th-century American military officer and political figure, notably a Union general in the Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wadsworth, Nevada