James Reed
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James Reed was an American Revolutionary War officer from New Hampshire who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army and played a key role in early northern campaigns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Reed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6664241 — 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 Reed Context triple: [New Hampshire Militia, notableCommander, James Reed]
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A.
James Reed
James Reed is a filmmaker best known for co-directing the Oscar-winning nature documentary "My Octopus Teacher."
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B.
William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
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C.
James Reynolds
James Reynolds is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions and public records.
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D.
James Reynolds
James Reynolds is the daughter of actors Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, known for being part of their high-profile celebrity family.
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E.
James Edward Rice
James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 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 Reed Target entity description: James Reed was an American Revolutionary War officer from New Hampshire who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army and played a key role in early northern campaigns.
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A.
James Reed
James Reed is a filmmaker best known for co-directing the Oscar-winning nature documentary "My Octopus Teacher."
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B.
William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
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C.
James Reynolds
James Reynolds is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions and public records.
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D.
James Reynolds
James Reynolds is the daughter of actors Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, known for being part of their high-profile celebrity family.
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E.
James Edward Rice
James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
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person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 18th century ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Congress
NERFINISHED
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Patriot cause ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Thirteen Colonies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | user-provided description: "James Reed was an American Revolutionary War officer from New Hampshire who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army and played a key role in early northern campaigns." NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| militaryTheater | Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command in the Continental Army
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service in early northern campaigns of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| participatedIn | early northern campaigns of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| partOf | American Revolutionary forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
brigadier general in the Continental Army
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officer in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| residence | New Hampshire 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 Reed Description of subject: James Reed was an American Revolutionary War officer from New Hampshire who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army and played a key role in early northern campaigns.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.