Col. Abraham C. Myers
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Col. Abraham C. Myers was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and later Confederate quartermaster general after whom the city of Fort Myers, Florida, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Col. Abraham C. Myers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11287766 — 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: Col. Abraham C. Myers Context triple: [Fort Myers, Florida, namedAfter, Col. Abraham C. Myers]
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A.
Colonel George F. James
Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
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B.
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
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C.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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D.
Colonel Isaac E. Avery
Colonel Isaac E. Avery was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, best remembered for his fatal wounding while leading a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
- 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: Col. Abraham C. Myers Target entity description: Col. Abraham C. Myers was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and later Confederate quartermaster general after whom the city of Fort Myers, Florida, is named.
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A.
Colonel George F. James
Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
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B.
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
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C.
Colonel Maxcy Gregg
Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
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D.
Colonel Isaac E. Avery
Colonel Isaac E. Avery was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, best remembered for his fatal wounding while leading a charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery
Colonel Alexander B. Montgomery was a Confederate officer best known for leading Southern forces during the Civil War’s Battle of Marianna in Florida.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate States Army officer
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United States Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Confederate States Army
NERFINISHED
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United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military logistics
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quartermaster service ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
administration of quartermaster operations
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management of military supplies ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Colonel ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | toponymy of Fort Myers, Florida ⓘ |
| hasParticularName | Col. Abraham C. Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Army Quartermaster Department
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Army Quartermaster Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Abraham C. Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being namesake of Fort Myers, Florida
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service as Confederate quartermaster general ⓘ |
| occupation |
quartermaster
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Quartermaster General of the Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Confederate States of America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Confederate States of America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States military posts in the 19th century ⓘ |
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: Col. Abraham C. Myers Description of subject: Col. Abraham C. Myers was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and later Confederate quartermaster general after whom the city of Fort Myers, Florida, is named.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.