Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry David Thoreau canonical | 57 |
| Henry D. Thoreau | 1 |
| John Thoreau Jr. | 1 |
| Thoreau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15982 — 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: Henry David Thoreau Context triple: [Martin Luther King Jr., influencedBy, Henry David Thoreau]
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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B.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was a pioneering 19th-century American author best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
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C.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was a renowned 19th-century American author and humorist, best known for works like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson was a pioneering American biologist and naturalist renowned for his work on biodiversity, sociobiology, and the study of ants.
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E.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
- 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: Henry David Thoreau Target entity description: Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.
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A.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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B.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was a pioneering 19th-century American author best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
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C.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was a renowned 19th-century American author and humorist, best known for works like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson was a pioneering American biologist and naturalist renowned for his work on biodiversity, sociobiology, and the study of ants.
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E.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Henry David Thoreau Description of subject: Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thoreau
this entity surface form:
John Thoreau Jr.
subject surface form:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
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burialPlaceOf
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Henry David Thoreau
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subject surface form:
Resistance to Civil Government
subject surface form:
The Dial (1840–1844)