David Wilmot
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David Wilmot was a 19th-century American politician best known for introducing the Wilmot Proviso, an unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Wilmot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13115102 — 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: David Wilmot Context triple: [Wilmot Proviso, proposedBy, David Wilmot]
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A.
David Wilmot
David Wilmot is an Irish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "The Guard," "Ripper Street," and "Calvary."
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B.
James Tallmadge Jr.
James Tallmadge Jr. was a U.S. congressman from New York best known for proposing the Tallmadge Amendment in 1819, which sought to restrict the expansion of slavery into Missouri.
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C.
Thomas L. Crittenden
Thomas L. Crittenden was a Union major general in the American Civil War who led the Army of the Cumberland’s Left Wing in several key Western Theater campaigns.
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D.
Thomas Crittenden
Thomas Crittenden was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Missouri and later as U.S. Attorney General.
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E.
Samuel W. Carroll
Samuel W. Carroll was a Union Army officer and brigade commander during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
- 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: David Wilmot Target entity description: David Wilmot was a 19th-century American politician best known for introducing the Wilmot Proviso, an unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
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A.
David Wilmot
David Wilmot is an Irish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "The Guard," "Ripper Street," and "Calvary."
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B.
James Tallmadge Jr.
James Tallmadge Jr. was a U.S. congressman from New York best known for proposing the Tallmadge Amendment in 1819, which sought to restrict the expansion of slavery into Missouri.
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C.
Thomas L. Crittenden
Thomas L. Crittenden was a Union major general in the American Civil War who led the Army of the Cumberland’s Left Wing in several key Western Theater campaigns.
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D.
Thomas Crittenden
Thomas Crittenden was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Missouri and later as U.S. Attorney General.
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E.
Samuel W. Carroll
Samuel W. Carroll was a Union Army officer and brigade commander during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Riverside Cemetery, Towanda, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1814-01-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1868-03-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | public schools in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilmot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | introducing the Wilmot Proviso ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
United States Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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Free Soil Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Republican Party ⓘ |
| movement | anti-slavery movement ⓘ |
| notableWork | Wilmot Proviso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Congress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bethany, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Towanda, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas
NERFINISHED
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ United States Senator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Towanda, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposed | ban on slavery in territory acquired from Mexico ⓘ |
| represented | Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: David Wilmot Description of subject: David Wilmot was a 19th-century American politician best known for introducing the Wilmot Proviso, an unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.