Frederick Funston
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Frederick Funston was a U.S. Army general best known for his daring capture of Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frederick Funston canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T655654 — 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: Frederick Funston Context triple: [Philippine–American War, commander, Frederick Funston]
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Albert J. Myer
Albert J. Myer was a U.S. Army officer and surgeon best known as the founder and first chief of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he pioneered military signaling and weather observation systems.
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B.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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C.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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D.
William R. Day
William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Herbert L. Porter
Herbert L. Porter was a political operative who served as a key official in President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and later became involved in the Watergate investigations.
- 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: Frederick Funston Target entity description: Frederick Funston was a U.S. Army general best known for his daring capture of Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine–American War.
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A.
Albert J. Myer
Albert J. Myer was a U.S. Army officer and surgeon best known as the founder and first chief of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he pioneered military signaling and weather observation systems.
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B.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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C.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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D.
William R. Day
William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Herbert L. Porter
Herbert L. Porter was a political operative who served as a key official in President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and later became involved in the Watergate investigations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Frederick Funston Description of subject: Frederick Funston was a U.S. Army general best known for his daring capture of Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine–American War.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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