John Calvin Coolidge Sr.
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John Calvin Coolidge Sr. was an American farmer, storekeeper, and local public official in Vermont, best known as the father of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Calvin Coolidge Sr. canonical | 6 |
| Calvin Coolidge Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12914465 — 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: John Calvin Coolidge Sr. Context triple: [Plymouth Notch Cemetery, hasBurial, John Calvin Coolidge Sr.]
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A.
Calvin Coolidge Dickinson
Calvin Coolidge Dickinson was a local benefactor whose legacy in the Northampton, Massachusetts area is commemorated through the naming of Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
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B.
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, known for his quiet demeanor, pro-business policies, and leadership during the economic prosperity of the 1920s.
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C.
John Coolidge
John Coolidge was the elder son of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, known primarily for his role as a presidential child during the 1920s.
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D.
SS President Coolidge
SS President Coolidge is a famous World War II-era luxury ocean liner turned troopship that sank off Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu and is now one of the world’s premier wreck diving sites.
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E.
Horace Dwight Taft
Horace Dwight Taft was an American educator best known as the founder and long-time headmaster of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
- 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: John Calvin Coolidge Sr. Target entity description: John Calvin Coolidge Sr. was an American farmer, storekeeper, and local public official in Vermont, best known as the father of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
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A.
Calvin Coolidge Dickinson
Calvin Coolidge Dickinson was a local benefactor whose legacy in the Northampton, Massachusetts area is commemorated through the naming of Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
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B.
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, known for his quiet demeanor, pro-business policies, and leadership during the economic prosperity of the 1920s.
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C.
John Coolidge
John Coolidge was the elder son of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, known primarily for his role as a presidential child during the 1920s.
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D.
SS President Coolidge
SS President Coolidge is a famous World War II-era luxury ocean liner turned troopship that sank off Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu and is now one of the world’s premier wreck diving sites.
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E.
Horace Dwight Taft
Horace Dwight Taft was an American educator best known as the founder and long-time headmaster of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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farmer ⓘ human ⓘ local public official ⓘ storekeeper ⓘ |
| business | Coolidge General Store ⓘ |
| child | Calvin Coolidge ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yankee ⓘ |
| familyName | Coolidge ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Calvin Coolidge ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agriculture
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local government ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the father of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
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service in local and state offices in Vermont ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| name | John Calvin Coolidge Sr. ⓘ |
| notableWork | operated the Coolidge General Store in Plymouth Notch, Vermont ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
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justice of the peace ⓘ notary public ⓘ politician ⓘ storekeeper ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Plymouth, Vermont
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Vermont ⓘ Windsor County, Vermont ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Plymouth, Vermont
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Vermont ⓘ Windsor County, Vermont ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
constable
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justice of the peace ⓘ member of the Vermont House of Representatives ⓘ member of the Vermont Senate ⓘ road commissioner ⓘ selectman ⓘ tax collector ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence |
Plymouth Notch, Vermont
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linked to:
Plymouth Notch
Plymouth, Vermont ⓘ |
| spouse |
Sarah Almeda Brewer
ⓘ
Victoria Josephine Moor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Plymouth Notch, Vermont
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linked to:
Plymouth Notch
Windsor County, Vermont ⓘ |
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: John Calvin Coolidge Sr. Description of subject: John Calvin Coolidge Sr. was an American farmer, storekeeper, and local public official in Vermont, best known as the father of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Calvin Coolidge Sr.