Robert C. Macon
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Robert C. Macon was a U.S. Army major general who led key American forces in the European Theater during World War II, including command of VIII Corps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert C. Macon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4669747 — 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: Robert C. Macon Context triple: [VIII Corps (United States), worldWarIICommander, Robert C. Macon]
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A.
Charles B. Mulvehill
Charles B. Mulvehill was a film producer best known for his work on the cult classic dark comedy "Harold and Maude."
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B.
Charles D. McCrary
Charles D. McCrary is an American business executive known for his leadership roles in major Southern U.S. corporations, including serving as chairperson of Regions Financial Corporation.
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C.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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D.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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E.
Oscar E. Teagarden
Oscar E. Teagarden was a judge who served on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, contributing to the development of U.S. customs and patent law.
- 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: Robert C. Macon Target entity description: Robert C. Macon was a U.S. Army major general who led key American forces in the European Theater during World War II, including command of VIII Corps.
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A.
Charles B. Mulvehill
Charles B. Mulvehill was a film producer best known for his work on the cult classic dark comedy "Harold and Maude."
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B.
Charles D. McCrary
Charles D. McCrary is an American business executive known for his leadership roles in major Southern U.S. corporations, including serving as chairperson of Regions Financial Corporation.
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C.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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D.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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E.
Oscar E. Teagarden
Oscar E. Teagarden was a judge who served on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, contributing to the development of U.S. customs and patent law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army general
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human ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Macon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| notableRole | senior field commander in the European Theater during World War II ⓘ |
| notableUnitCommanded | VIII Corps (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of key American forces in the European Theater during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | Allied operations in Western Europe during World War II ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
U.S. Army officer
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commander of VIII Corps ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | European Theater of Operations 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: Robert C. Macon Description of subject: Robert C. Macon was a U.S. Army major general who led key American forces in the European Theater during World War II, including command of VIII Corps.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.