Convention of 1836
E119367
The Convention of 1836 was the assembly of Texan delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos that declared Texas independent from Mexico and drafted its founding constitution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Convention of 1836 canonical | 7 |
| Washington-on-the-Brazos Convention | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1019499 — 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.
Target entity: Convention of 1836 Context triple: [Texas Revolution, hasPart, Convention of 1836]
-
A.
Treaties of Velasco
The Treaties of Velasco were 1836 agreements between the newly independent Republic of Texas and captured Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna that sought to end hostilities after the Battle of San Jacinto and define Texas–Mexico relations.
-
B.
London Protocol of 1830
The London Protocol of 1830 was an international agreement by the Great Powers that recognized Greece as an independent state following the Greek War of Independence.
-
C.
Treaty of Fort Finney
The Treaty of Fort Finney was a 1786 agreement in which several Shawnee leaders ceded large tracts of land in the Ohio River Valley to the United States, helping set the stage for escalating conflicts that became the Northwest Indian War.
-
D.
Treaty of Lagos
The Treaty of Lagos is the 1975 agreement that established the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a regional organization for economic integration and cooperation in West Africa.
-
E.
Treaty of San Ildefonso (1796)
The Treaty of San Ildefonso (1796) was an alliance agreement in which Spain, under Charles IV, joined revolutionary France against Great Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Convention of 1836 Target entity description: The Convention of 1836 was the assembly of Texan delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos that declared Texas independent from Mexico and drafted its founding constitution.
-
A.
Treaties of Velasco
The Treaties of Velasco were 1836 agreements between the newly independent Republic of Texas and captured Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna that sought to end hostilities after the Battle of San Jacinto and define Texas–Mexico relations.
-
B.
London Protocol of 1830
The London Protocol of 1830 was an international agreement by the Great Powers that recognized Greece as an independent state following the Greek War of Independence.
-
C.
Treaty of Fort Finney
The Treaty of Fort Finney was a 1786 agreement in which several Shawnee leaders ceded large tracts of land in the Ohio River Valley to the United States, helping set the stage for escalating conflicts that became the Northwest Indian War.
-
D.
Treaty of Lagos
The Treaty of Lagos is the 1975 agreement that established the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a regional organization for economic integration and cooperation in West Africa.
-
E.
Treaty of San Ildefonso (1796)
The Treaty of San Ildefonso (1796) was an alliance agreement in which Spain, under Charles IV, joined revolutionary France against Great Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
constitutional convention
ⓘ
revolutionary assembly ⓘ |
| adjacentToEvent |
Battle of the Alamo
ⓘ
Runaway Scrape ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Texas Declaration of Independence
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Independence Convention
Convention of 1836 ⓘ
surface form:
Washington-on-the-Brazos Convention
|
| appliesToTerritory | Texas ⓘ |
| authorOfDeclaration | George C. Childress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chairperson | Richard Ellis ⓘ |
| conflict | Texas Revolution ⓘ |
| country | Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| countryBeforeEvent | Mexico ⓘ |
| draftedBy | George C. Childress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endDate | 1836-03-17 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Congress of the Republic of Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of the Republic of Texas
election of interim officials of the Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfDelegates | 59 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
adoption of an interim government
ⓘ
drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Texas ⓘ drafting of the Texas Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Texas ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| legalEffect | created the Republic of Texas as an independent nation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northeastern Mexico
ⓘ
surface form:
Mexican Texas
Texas ⓘ |
| location | Washington-on-the-Brazos ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Constitution of 1836
Texas Revolution ⓘ
surface form:
Texas independence
|
| organizedBy | Texan delegates ⓘ |
| president | Richard Ellis ⓘ |
| result |
Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)
ⓘ
surface form:
Constitution of the Republic of Texas
Texas Declaration of Independence ⓘ establishment of an interim government of Texas ⓘ formal separation of Texas from Mexico ⓘ |
| significance | founding political assembly of the Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Texas Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| significantFigure |
George C. Childress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Collinsworth ⓘ José Navarro ⓘ
surface form:
José Antonio Navarro
José Francisco Ruiz ⓘ Lorenzo de Zavala ⓘ Richard Ellis ⓘ Sam Houston ⓘ Thomas J. Rusk ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
William B. Travis ⓘ |
| startDate | 1836-03-01 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Texas Revolution ⓘ |
| vicePresident | Lorenzo de Zavala ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Convention of 1836 Description of subject: The Convention of 1836 was the assembly of Texan delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos that declared Texas independent from Mexico and drafted its founding constitution.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.