Daniel Harvey Hill
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Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his service in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his postwar career as an educator and writer.
All labels observed (1)
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| Daniel Harvey Hill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9322343 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel Harvey Hill Context triple: [D. H. Hill, fullName, Daniel Harvey Hill]
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A.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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B.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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C.
Dwight Ewell
Dwight Ewell is an American actor best known for his memorable supporting role in Kevin Smith’s 1997 indie romantic comedy film "Chasing Amy."
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D.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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E.
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was a 19th-century American educator and Civil War veteran best known for helping to revive and preserve the College of William & Mary during and after the war.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel Harvey Hill Target entity description: Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his service in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his postwar career as an educator and writer.
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A.
A.P. Hill
A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
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B.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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C.
Dwight Ewell
Dwight Ewell is an American actor best known for his memorable supporting role in Kevin Smith’s 1997 indie romantic comedy film "Chasing Amy."
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D.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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E.
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was a 19th-century American educator and Civil War veteran best known for helping to revive and preserve the College of William & Mary during and after the war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate general
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Brevet promotions for gallantry in Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1821-07-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
York District, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Davidson College Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 1889-09-24 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Charlotte, North Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| education | United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Davidson College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Daniel Harvey Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1842 ⓘ |
| knownFor | postwar career as an educator and writer ⓘ |
| middleName | Harvey ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Brigadier general
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Lieutenant general ⓘ Major general ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a Confederate lieutenant general in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Confederate Soldier in the Civil War
NERFINISHED
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Elements of Algebra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
college president
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educator ⓘ mathematics professor ⓘ soldier ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
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Atlanta Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Antietam NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Chickamauga NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of South Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsula Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Days Battles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of Arkansas Industrial University
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President of the Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville, Georgia ⓘ |
| relationType | brother-in-law of Thomas J. Jackson ⓘ |
| relative | Thomas J. Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| servedUnder |
Braxton Bragg
NERFINISHED
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Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Stonewall Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Isabella Morrison Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Daniel Harvey Hill Description of subject: Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his service in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his postwar career as an educator and writer.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.