Martin L. Smith
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Martin L. Smith was a Confederate general and engineer in the American Civil War, noted for his role in organizing and defending the fortifications at Vicksburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin L. Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6190776 — 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: Martin L. Smith Context triple: [Confederate garrison of Vicksburg, associatedWithCommander, Martin L. Smith]
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A.
Martin Smith
Martin Smith was the son of English composer John Stafford Smith, best known for writing the melody that became the United States national anthem.
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B.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
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C.
Steve Carlson
Steve Carlson is an American former professional ice hockey player best known for portraying one of the Hanson Brothers in the cult classic film "Slap Shot."
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D.
David Heitner
David Heitner is a film editor known for his work on the South African musical drama film "Sarafina!".
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E.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
- 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: Martin L. Smith Target entity description: Martin L. Smith was a Confederate general and engineer in the American Civil War, noted for his role in organizing and defending the fortifications at Vicksburg.
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A.
Martin Smith
Martin Smith was the son of English composer John Stafford Smith, best known for writing the melody that became the United States national anthem.
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B.
Matthew C. Brown
Matthew C. Brown is a film producer known for his work on the horror movie "Spectral."
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C.
Steve Carlson
Steve Carlson is an American former professional ice hockey player best known for portraying one of the Hanson Brothers in the cult classic film "Slap Shot."
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D.
David Heitner
David Heitner is a film editor known for his work on the South African musical drama film "Sarafina!".
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E.
Mark L. Smith
Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1819-09-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Danby, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | yellow fever ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1866-07-29 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Savannah, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| engineeringRole | Confederate engineer officer ⓘ |
| engineeringSpecialty | fortifications ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fullName | Martin Luther Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1842 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defending the fortifications at Vicksburg
ⓘ
organizing the defenses of Vicksburg ⓘ |
| middleName | Luther NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableBattle | Siege of Vicksburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil engineer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| position | chief engineer at Vicksburg defenses ⓘ |
| preWarRank | captain in the United States Army ⓘ |
| preWarService | United States Army officer ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Army of Northern Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1865 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | American Civil War (Confederate service) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| side | Confederacy 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: Martin L. Smith Description of subject: Martin L. Smith was a Confederate general and engineer in the American Civil War, noted for his role in organizing and defending the fortifications at Vicksburg.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.