William Samuel Johnson
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William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Samuel Johnson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1954747 — 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: William Samuel Johnson Context triple: [Committee on Style, member, William Samuel Johnson]
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A.
Nicholas Herkimer
Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
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B.
Philip Schuyler
Philip Schuyler was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New York statesman who played a key role in organizing and leading early Continental Army operations in the northern colonies.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
John Schuyler Jr.
John Schuyler Jr. was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of colonial New York, known primarily as the son of Revolutionary War general and statesman Philip Schuyler.
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E.
James McHenry
James McHenry was an American statesman, physician, Revolutionary War surgeon, and U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
- 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: William Samuel Johnson Target entity description: William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
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A.
Nicholas Herkimer
Nicholas Herkimer was an American Revolutionary War militia general from New York, best known for leading colonial forces at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.
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B.
Philip Schuyler
Philip Schuyler was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New York statesman who played a key role in organizing and leading early Continental Army operations in the northern colonies.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
John Schuyler Jr.
John Schuyler Jr. was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of colonial New York, known primarily as the son of Revolutionary War general and statesman Philip Schuyler.
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E.
James McHenry
James McHenry was an American statesman, physician, Revolutionary War surgeon, and U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Founding Father of the United States
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Master of Arts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1727-10-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1819-11-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale College
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Yale University ⓘ |
| endTime |
presidency of Columbia College ended 1800
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term in United States Senate ended 1791 ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| father |
Samuel Johnson
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surface form:
Samuel Johnson (clergyman and educator)
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| givenName | William ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Connecticut General Assembly
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Constitutional Convention ⓘ Continental Congress ⓘ United States Senate ⓘ |
| mother | Charity Floyd ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | participation in drafting and signing the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Constitutional Convention
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surface form:
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Continental Congress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Stratford, Connecticut
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surface form:
Stratford, Connecticut Colony
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| placeOfDeath |
Stratford, Connecticut
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surface form:
Stratford, Connecticut, United States
|
| positionHeld |
President of Columbia College
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United States senator ⓘ delegate to the Constitutional Convention ⓘ delegate to the Continental Congress ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| represented |
Connecticut
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Connecticut at the Constitutional Convention ⓘ Connecticut in the United States Senate ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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Stratford, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | United States Constitution ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ann Beach
ⓘ
Mary Brewster ⓘ |
| startTime |
presidency of Columbia College began 1787
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term in United States Senate began 1789 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: William Samuel Johnson Description of subject: William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.