James J. Archer
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James J. Archer was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his role in early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James J. Archer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6754613 — 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 J. Archer Context triple: [McPherson Ridge, associatedWithPerson, James J. Archer]
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A.
John A. Crews
John A. Crews was a United States military service member interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery, likely recognized for his service to the country.
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B.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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C.
Joseph P. Kerwin
Joseph P. Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first medical doctor in space as a crew member aboard the Skylab space station.
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D.
Howard G. Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham, better known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing to agile software development practices.
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E.
William G. McGowan
William G. McGowan was an American businessman best known for transforming MCI into a major telecommunications competitor to AT&T and helping to deregulate the U.S. long-distance phone industry.
- 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 J. Archer Target entity description: James J. Archer was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his role in early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A.
John A. Crews
John A. Crews was a United States military service member interred at Golden Gate National Cemetery, likely recognized for his service to the country.
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B.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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C.
Joseph P. Kerwin
Joseph P. Kerwin is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first medical doctor in space as a crew member aboard the Skylab space station.
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D.
Howard G. Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham, better known as Ward Cunningham, is an American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki and contributing to agile software development practices.
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E.
William G. McGowan
William G. McGowan was an American businessman best known for transforming MCI into a major telecommunications competitor to AT&T and helping to deregulate the U.S. long-distance phone industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate Army general
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1817-12-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Harford County, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedAt | Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness related to hardships of imprisonment ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1864-10-24 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Richmond, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education |
Princeton University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Maryland, School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Jay Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| heldAt | Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| mother | Ann Stump Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Jim Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Antietam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Cedar Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Chancellorsville NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Fredericksburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Seven Pines NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Days Battles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEntityOfOrigin | Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousMilitaryService | United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| servedInConflict | Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedInUnit |
Army of Northern Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Light Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
A. P. Hill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1864 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1861 ⓘ |
| wasFirst | first general officer of the Army of Northern Virginia captured after Gettysburg began ⓘ |
| wasPrisonerOfWar | yes ⓘ |
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 J. Archer Description of subject: James J. Archer was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his role in early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.