James S. Harlan
E249837
James S. Harlan was an American lawyer and public official, known as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and for serving on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James S. Harlan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2223957 — 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 S. Harlan Context triple: [John Marshall Harlan, child, James S. Harlan]
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A.
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon P. Chase was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary during the Civil War and later as Chief Justice of the United States.
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B.
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth was an American Founding Father, influential framer of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
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C.
Daniel Cady
Daniel Cady was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York, best known today as the father of women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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D.
Edward Bates
Edward Bates was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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E.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
- 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 S. Harlan Target entity description: James S. Harlan was an American lawyer and public official, known as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and for serving on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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A.
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon P. Chase was a 19th-century American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary during the Civil War and later as Chief Justice of the United States.
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B.
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth was an American Founding Father, influential framer of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
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C.
Daniel Cady
Daniel Cady was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York, best known today as the father of women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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D.
Edward Bates
Edward Bates was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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E.
Luther L. Terry
Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lawyer ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Interstate Commerce Commission ⓘ |
| familyName | Harlan ⓘ |
| father | John Marshall Harlan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James S. Harlan self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan
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service on the Interstate Commerce Commission ⓘ |
| notableWork | service on the Interstate Commerce Commission ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
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lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the Interstate Commerce Commission ⓘ |
| relative | John Marshall Harlan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 S. Harlan Description of subject: James S. Harlan was an American lawyer and public official, known as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and for serving on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.