Tobias Lear
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Tobias Lear was an American diplomat and personal secretary to George Washington, best known for his role in early U.S. foreign affairs and negotiations with North African states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tobias Lear canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13010029 — 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: Tobias Lear Context triple: [Treaty of Tripoli (1805), negotiatedBy, Tobias Lear]
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A.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
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B.
Thaddeus Bradley
Thaddeus Bradley is a skeptical former magician turned professional debunker who exposes illusionists’ tricks in the film "Now You See Me."
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C.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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D.
Nathaniel Parker
Nathaniel Parker is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in adaptations of classic literature and popular detective dramas.
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E.
James Van Ness
James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
- 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: Tobias Lear Target entity description: Tobias Lear was an American diplomat and personal secretary to George Washington, best known for his role in early U.S. foreign affairs and negotiations with North African states.
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A.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
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B.
Thaddeus Bradley
Thaddeus Bradley is a skeptical former magician turned professional debunker who exposes illusionists’ tricks in the film "Now You See Me."
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C.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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D.
Nathaniel Parker
Nathaniel Parker is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in adaptations of classic literature and popular detective dramas.
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E.
James Van Ness
James Van Ness was a 19th-century American politician who served as mayor of San Francisco and for whom the city's major thoroughfare Van Ness Avenue is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American diplomat
ⓘ
human ⓘ political aide ⓘ secretary ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Congressional Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1762-09-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1816-10-11 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
correspondence of George Washington
ⓘ
early U.S. diplomatic records ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Phillips Exeter Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
George Washington
ⓘ
United States federal government ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| familyName | Lear ⓘ |
| givenName | Tobias ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role in early U.S. foreign relations with North African states
ⓘ
serving as George Washington's personal secretary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Washington's presidential household ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Treaty of Peace and Amity with Tripoli (1805)
ⓘ
linked to:
Treaty of Tripoli (1805)
negotiations with the Barbary States ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ secretary ⓘ |
| participatedIn | First Barbary War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Portsmouth, New Hampshire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Clerk of the War Department
ⓘ
United States Consul General to Algiers ⓘ United States Consul to Saint-Domingue ⓘ personal secretary to George Washington ⓘ private secretary to the President of the United States ⓘ |
| relative | Benjamin Lincoln Lear ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Mount Vernon
ⓘ
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | negotiated end of hostilities with Tripoli in 1805 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frances Bassett Washington Lear
ⓘ
Frances Dandridge Henley ⓘ
linked to:
Frances Dandridge
Mary Long ⓘ |
| workedFor |
George Washington
ⓘ
James Madison administration ⓘ
linked to:
Presidency of James Madison
Thomas Jefferson administration ⓘ
linked to:
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
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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: Tobias Lear Description of subject: Tobias Lear was an American diplomat and personal secretary to George Washington, best known for his role in early U.S. foreign affairs and negotiations with North African states.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.