Peter Anspach
E202583
Peter Anspach was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Anspach canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723676 — 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: Peter Anspach Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, Peter Anspach]
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A.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
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B.
Philip Moeller
Philip Moeller was an American theater director, playwright, and producer best known as a co-founder and key creative force behind New York’s influential Theatre Guild in the early 20th century.
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C.
Peter Kornbluh
Peter Kornbluh is an American historian and investigative journalist known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and declassified government documents, particularly regarding Latin America.
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D.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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E.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
- 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: Peter Anspach Target entity description: Peter Anspach was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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A.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
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B.
Philip Moeller
Philip Moeller was an American theater director, playwright, and producer best known as a co-founder and key creative force behind New York’s influential Theatre Guild in the early 20th century.
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C.
Peter Kornbluh
Peter Kornbluh is an American historian and investigative journalist known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and declassified government documents, particularly regarding Latin America.
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D.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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E.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial agreement
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | 1792 ⓘ |
| employer |
Wall Street
ⓘ
surface form:
New York financial district
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| hasSignatory | Peter Anspach self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| occupation |
broker
ⓘ
stockbroker ⓘ |
| participantIn | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| significance | foundational agreement for what became the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
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: Peter Anspach Description of subject: Peter Anspach was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Buttonwood Agreement