Spiro Agnew
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Spiro Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, known for his combative rhetoric and for resigning from office in 1973 amid a bribery and tax evasion scandal.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiro Agnew canonical | 22 |
| Agnew | 2 |
| James Rand Agnew | 1 |
| Spiro Agnew (as Vice President, office vacant between) | 1 |
| Spiro T. Agnew | 1 |
| Spiro Theodore Agnew | 1 |
| former Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew | 1 |
| former U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T90691 — 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: Spiro Agnew Context triple: [Richard Nixon, vicePresident, Spiro Agnew]
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A.
Elliot Richardson
Elliot Richardson was a prominent American lawyer and politician who served in multiple high-level U.S. government positions and is best known for resigning as Attorney General during the Watergate scandal rather than obey President Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor.
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B.
James Baker
James Baker is an American statesman and Republican political figure who served in several top U.S. government roles, including White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, under multiple presidential administrations in the late 20th century.
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C.
H. R. Haldeman
H. R. Haldeman was a powerful and influential aide to President Richard Nixon, best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States, known for assuming the presidency after Richard Nixon’s resignation and issuing a controversial pardon for his predecessor.
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E.
John Ehrlichman
John Ehrlichman was a top domestic policy aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon who became a central figure in the Watergate scandal and was later convicted for his role in its cover-up.
- 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: Spiro Agnew Target entity description: Spiro Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, known for his combative rhetoric and for resigning from office in 1973 amid a bribery and tax evasion scandal.
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A.
Elliot Richardson
Elliot Richardson was a prominent American lawyer and politician who served in multiple high-level U.S. government positions and is best known for resigning as Attorney General during the Watergate scandal rather than obey President Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor.
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B.
James Baker
James Baker is an American statesman and Republican political figure who served in several top U.S. government roles, including White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, under multiple presidential administrations in the late 20th century.
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C.
H. R. Haldeman
H. R. Haldeman was a powerful and influential aide to President Richard Nixon, best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States, known for assuming the presidency after Richard Nixon’s resignation and issuing a controversial pardon for his predecessor.
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E.
John Ehrlichman
John Ehrlichman was a top domestic policy aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon who became a central figure in the Watergate scandal and was later convicted for his role in its cover-up.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Spiro Agnew Description of subject: Spiro Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, known for his combative rhetoric and for resigning from office in 1973 amid a bribery and tax evasion scandal.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spiro Agnew (as Vice President, office vacant between)
this entity surface form:
Agnew
this entity surface form:
Spiro Theodore Agnew
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Maryland, United States
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hasNotableBurial
→
Spiro Agnew
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subject surface form:
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Maryland, United States
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hasNotableBurial
→
Spiro Agnew
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subject surface form:
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens
this entity surface form:
former U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Maryland, United States
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hasNotableBurial
→
Spiro Agnew
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subject surface form:
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens
this entity surface form:
former Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew
this entity surface form:
Agnew
this entity surface form:
Spiro T. Agnew
this entity surface form:
James Rand Agnew
subject surface form:
Committee to Re-elect the President