Jesse K. Dubois
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Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jesse K. Dubois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385744 — 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: Jesse K. Dubois Context triple: [Oak Ridge Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Jesse K. Dubois]
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A.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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B.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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C.
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Dunn is a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous high-profile films and television productions.
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D.
Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill is a prominent free software activist, scholar, and Debian developer known for his leadership in the free culture movement and research on online communities.
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E.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
- 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: Jesse K. Dubois Target entity description: Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
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A.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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B.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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C.
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Dunn is a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous high-profile films and television productions.
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D.
Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill is a prominent free software activist, scholar, and Debian developer known for his leadership in the free culture movement and research on online communities.
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E.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| areaOfResponsibility |
public accounts of Illinois
ⓘ
state financial oversight ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedBySource | historical accounts of Abraham Lincoln’s political circle ⓘ |
| employer |
Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Illinois
|
| familyName | Dubois ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public finance
ⓘ
state government ⓘ |
| genre | 19th-century American politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Jesse ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| hasRole | auditor of public accounts ⓘ |
| name | Jesse K. Dubois self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a close political ally of Abraham Lincoln
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holding the office of Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts in the mid-19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| partOf |
Government of Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois state government
|
| politicalActivity |
Government of Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois state politics
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| politicalAllyOf | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Comptroller of Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts
state auditor ⓘ |
| residence | Illinois ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Illinois ⓘ |
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: Jesse K. Dubois Description of subject: Jesse K. Dubois was an Illinois politician and close ally of Abraham Lincoln who served as the state's auditor of public accounts in the mid-19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.