James Jacobus Roosevelt
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James Jacobus Roosevelt was a New York merchant and early member of the Roosevelt family whose descendants included U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Jacobus Roosevelt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1466530 — 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: James Jacobus Roosevelt Context triple: [Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, father, James Jacobus Roosevelt]
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A.
James Roosevelt Roosevelt
James Roosevelt Roosevelt was an American diplomat and political figure, best known for serving as the first U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and as the son of businessman James Roosevelt I and half-brother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Joseph Willard Roosevelt
Joseph Willard Roosevelt was an American pianist and composer, and a grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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C.
James Roosevelt I
James Roosevelt I was an American businessman and prominent member of the Roosevelt family, best known as the father of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Archibald Roosevelt
Archibald Roosevelt was an American Army officer and businessman best known as one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s sons, who served with distinction in both World Wars.
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E.
Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, remembered as a daring World War I fighter pilot who was killed in action over France in 1918.
- 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: James Jacobus Roosevelt Target entity description: James Jacobus Roosevelt was a New York merchant and early member of the Roosevelt family whose descendants included U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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A.
James Roosevelt Roosevelt
James Roosevelt Roosevelt was an American diplomat and political figure, best known for serving as the first U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and as the son of businessman James Roosevelt I and half-brother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Joseph Willard Roosevelt
Joseph Willard Roosevelt was an American pianist and composer, and a grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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C.
James Roosevelt I
James Roosevelt I was an American businessman and prominent member of the Roosevelt family, best known as the father of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Archibald Roosevelt
Archibald Roosevelt was an American Army officer and businessman best known as one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s sons, who served with distinction in both World Wars.
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E.
Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, remembered as a daring World War I fighter pilot who was killed in action over France in 1918.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
member of the Roosevelt family ⓘ merchant ⓘ |
| businessLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1759-07-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1840-08-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Dutch American
ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch Americans
|
| familyName | Roosevelt ⓘ |
| father | Jacobus Roosevelt III ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jacobus
ⓘ
James ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt
ⓘ
Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt Sr. ⓘ |
| livedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| memberOf | Roosevelt family ⓘ |
| mother | Catherine Haring ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Roosevelt family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an early ancestor of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ |
| occupation | merchant ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maria Helen Van Schaack
ⓘ
surface form:
Maria Van Schaack
|
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: James Jacobus Roosevelt Description of subject: James Jacobus Roosevelt was a New York merchant and early member of the Roosevelt family whose descendants included U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.