Philemon Dickerson
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Philemon Dickerson was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey and a U.S. Representative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philemon Dickerson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1591154 — 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: Philemon Dickerson Context triple: [Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey), hasNotableBurial, Philemon Dickerson]
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A.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
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C.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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D.
Lemuel Bowen
Lemuel Bowen was an early automotive entrepreneur associated with the founding of the Cadillac automobile company.
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E.
Anson Jones
Anson Jones was an American physician, politician, and statesman best known for overseeing the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States.
- 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: Philemon Dickerson Target entity description: Philemon Dickerson was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey and a U.S. Representative.
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A.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
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C.
William Terrell
William Terrell was an American politician and public figure from Georgia, honored as the namesake of Terrell County.
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D.
Lemuel Bowen
Lemuel Bowen was an early automotive entrepreneur associated with the founding of the Cadillac automobile company.
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E.
Anson Jones
Anson Jones was an American physician, politician, and statesman best known for overseeing the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Martin Van Buren ⓘ |
| canonizedBy |
United States federal judiciary (as Article III judge)
ⓘ
linked to:
federal judiciary of the United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1788-01-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1862-12-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Litchfield Law School
ⓘ
University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| electedIn | 1836 New Jersey gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| electoralDistrict | New Jersey at-large congressional district ⓘ |
| endTime |
1836 (service in U.S. House of Representatives)
ⓘ
1837 (term as Governor of New Jersey) ⓘ 1862 (service as U.S. District Judge) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dickerson ⓘ |
| givenName | Philemon ⓘ |
| jurisdictionGoverned |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| legalEducation | Litchfield Law School ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Service as Governor of New Jersey
ⓘ
Service as U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey ⓘ Service as U.S. Representative from New Jersey ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of New Jersey ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American politicians ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Succasunna, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Wharton, New Jersey
|
| placeOfDeath | Paterson, New Jersey ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New Jersey
ⓘ
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Paterson, New Jersey ⓘ |
| region |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| relative | Mahlon Dickerson ⓘ |
| representedIn | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| residence | Paterson, New Jersey ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Mahlon Dickerson ⓘ |
| startTime |
1833 (service in U.S. House of Representatives)
ⓘ
1836 (term as Governor of New Jersey) ⓘ 1840 (service as U.S. District Judge) ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
Paterson, New Jersey ⓘ |
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: Philemon Dickerson Description of subject: Philemon Dickerson was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey and a U.S. Representative.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey, United States