Rev. Jeremiah Day
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Rev. Jeremiah Day was an American Congregational minister best known as the father of Jeremiah Day, the long-serving president of Yale College.
All labels observed (1)
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| Rev. Jeremiah Day canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12935556 — 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: Rev. Jeremiah Day Context triple: [Jeremiah Day, parent, Rev. Jeremiah Day]
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A.
Reverend Jeremiah Brown
Reverend Jeremiah Brown is a fiery, fundamentalist preacher in the play "Inherit the Wind," known for his uncompromising religious zeal and harsh condemnation of evolution and its supporters.
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B.
Rev. Samuel Sayer
Rev. Samuel Sayer is a missionary clergyman in C.S. Forester’s novel and its film adaptation "The African Queen," whose death early in the story propels his sister and the riverboat captain into their perilous journey.
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C.
Reverend Eliphalet Ball
Reverend Eliphalet Ball was an 18th-century Presbyterian minister and early settler in upstate New York, remembered as the namesake of Ballston Spa.
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D.
Rev. William Emerson
Rev. William Emerson was an 18th-century New England clergyman and patriot, best known as the grandfather of transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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E.
Reverend Jonas Clarke
Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Rev. Jeremiah Day Target entity description: Rev. Jeremiah Day was an American Congregational minister best known as the father of Jeremiah Day, the long-serving president of Yale College.
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A.
Reverend Jeremiah Brown
Reverend Jeremiah Brown is a fiery, fundamentalist preacher in the play "Inherit the Wind," known for his uncompromising religious zeal and harsh condemnation of evolution and its supporters.
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B.
Rev. Samuel Sayer
Rev. Samuel Sayer is a missionary clergyman in C.S. Forester’s novel and its film adaptation "The African Queen," whose death early in the story propels his sister and the riverboat captain into their perilous journey.
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C.
Reverend Eliphalet Ball
Reverend Eliphalet Ball was an 18th-century Presbyterian minister and early settler in upstate New York, remembered as the namesake of Ballston Spa.
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D.
Rev. William Emerson
Rev. William Emerson was an 18th-century New England clergyman and patriot, best known as the grandfather of transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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E.
Reverend Jonas Clarke
Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Congregational minister
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human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Jeremiah Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Jeremiah Day, president of Yale College ⓘ |
| notableWork | ministry in the Congregational Church ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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clergyman ⓘ college president ⓘ minister ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Yale College ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism 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: Rev. Jeremiah Day Description of subject: Rev. Jeremiah Day was an American Congregational minister best known as the father of Jeremiah Day, the long-serving president of Yale College.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.