Tobias Stansbury
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Tobias Stansbury was an American militia officer who led U.S. forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Bladensburg, a key engagement preceding the British capture of Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tobias Stansbury canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T627826 — 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: Tobias Stansbury Context triple: [Battle of Bladensburg, commander, Tobias Stansbury]
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A.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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B.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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C.
Marcus Mumford
Marcus Mumford is a British-American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of the folk-rock band Mumford & Sons.
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D.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soulful pop-rock hits like "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot."
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E.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
- 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: Tobias Stansbury Target entity description: Tobias Stansbury was an American militia officer who led U.S. forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Bladensburg, a key engagement preceding the British capture of Washington, D.C.
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A.
Robby Mook
Robby Mook is an American political strategist best known for serving as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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B.
Mike Starr
Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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C.
Marcus Mumford
Marcus Mumford is a British-American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of the folk-rock band Mumford & Sons.
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D.
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw is an American singer-songwriter best known for his soulful pop-rock hits like "I Don't Want to Be" and "Chariot."
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E.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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military officer ⓘ militia officer ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | American militia ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| movement | United States military forces in the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Bladensburg ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading U.S. forces during the Battle of Bladensburg ⓘ |
| notableWork | Command of U.S. militia forces at the Battle of Bladensburg ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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militia officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Bladensburg
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War of 1812 ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Bladensburg, Maryland
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Maryland ⓘ |
| role | commander of U.S. forces at the Battle of Bladensburg ⓘ |
| significantEvent | British capture of Washington, D.C. following the Battle of Bladensburg ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Tobias Stansbury Description of subject: Tobias Stansbury was an American militia officer who led U.S. forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Bladensburg, a key engagement preceding the British capture of Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.