Jennie Wade
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Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, later becoming a symbol of the conflict’s impact on noncombatants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jennie Wade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6620918 — 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: Jennie Wade Context triple: [Evergreen Cemetery, hasNotableBurials, Jennie Wade]
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A.
Jennifer Wade
Jennifer Wade is a British jewelry designer and former model best known as the fourth wife of comedian and actor John Cleese.
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B.
Rebekah Mary Wade
Rebekah Mary Wade, better known as Rebekah Brooks, is a British media executive and former tabloid editor who rose to prominence as editor of The Sun and News of the World and became a central figure in the UK phone-hacking scandal.
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C.
Laura Jennings
Laura Jennings is a film editor best known for her work on major action and science fiction movies, including the Tom Cruise–led blockbuster "Edge of Tomorrow."
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D.
Mary Rivers
Mary Rivers is a kind and intelligent young woman in Charlotte Brontë’s novel "Jane Eyre," known as one of the Rivers siblings who befriend and shelter the heroine.
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E.
May Boatwright
May Boatwright is a sensitive, emotionally fragile woman in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees," known for her deep empathy, childlike innocence, and tragic struggle to cope with the pain of the world.
- 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: Jennie Wade Target entity description: Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, later becoming a symbol of the conflict’s impact on noncombatants.
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A.
Jennifer Wade
Jennifer Wade is a British jewelry designer and former model best known as the fourth wife of comedian and actor John Cleese.
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B.
Rebekah Mary Wade
Rebekah Mary Wade, better known as Rebekah Brooks, is a British media executive and former tabloid editor who rose to prominence as editor of The Sun and News of the World and became a central figure in the UK phone-hacking scandal.
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C.
Laura Jennings
Laura Jennings is a film editor best known for her work on major action and science fiction movies, including the Tom Cruise–led blockbuster "Edge of Tomorrow."
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D.
Mary Rivers
Mary Rivers is a kind and intelligent young woman in Charlotte Brontë’s novel "Jane Eyre," known as one of the Rivers siblings who befriend and shelter the heroine.
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E.
May Boatwright
May Boatwright is a sensitive, emotionally fragile woman in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees," known for her deep empathy, childlike innocence, and tragic struggle to cope with the pain of the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Civil War civilian
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civilian casualty ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activityDuringBattle | baking bread for Union soldiers ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 20 ⓘ |
| associatedWithMilitarySide | Union (indirectly, as a civilian in Union-held area) ⓘ |
| bodyInitiallyBuriedAt | backyard of the house where she was killed ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
historical literature about the Battle of Gettysburg
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tourist sites in Gettysburg ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
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Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1843-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1863-07-03 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| father | James Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Mary Virginia Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMonument | statue at her gravesite in Evergreen Cemetery ⓘ |
| houseAssociatedWith | Jennie Wade House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseLocation | Baltimore Street, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedWhile | baking bread in her sister's house ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterReinterredAt | Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| memorial | Jennie Wade Monument at Evergreen Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Ann Filby Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Jennie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | only direct civilian death during the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| occupation | seamstress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| shotThrough | door of the house where she was staying ⓘ |
| sibling | Georgia Wade McClellan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
civilian suffering in the American Civil War
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impact of war on noncombatants ⓘ |
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: Jennie Wade Description of subject: Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, later becoming a symbol of the conflict’s impact on noncombatants.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.