Henry Howard Swan
E220003
Henry Howard Swan was an American jurist who served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Howard Swan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1822002 — 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 Howard Swan Context triple: [Henry Billings Brown, successor, Henry Howard Swan]
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A.
Charles Alton Ellis
Charles Alton Ellis was an American structural engineer best known for performing the complex mathematical and design work that made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
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B.
Harold Briggs
Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
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C.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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D.
Edward James Hughes
Edward James Hughes, better known as Ted Hughes, was a prominent 20th-century English poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom renowned for his powerful, nature-infused verse.
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E.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
- 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 Howard Swan Target entity description: Henry Howard Swan was an American jurist who served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the early 20th century.
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A.
Charles Alton Ellis
Charles Alton Ellis was an American structural engineer best known for performing the complex mathematical and design work that made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
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B.
Harold Briggs
Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
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C.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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D.
Edward James Hughes
Edward James Hughes, better known as Ted Hughes, was a prominent 20th-century English poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom renowned for his powerful, nature-infused verse.
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E.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American judge
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federal judge ⓘ human ⓘ person from the early 20th century United States judiciary ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
federal judiciary
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law ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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surface form:
Sixth Circuit
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| memberOf | United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a federal appellate judge ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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surface form:
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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| workLocation |
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
ⓘ
surface form:
Sixth Circuit
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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 Howard Swan Description of subject: Henry Howard Swan was an American jurist who served as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.