Abraham Woodhull
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Abraham Woodhull was a real-life American farmer and spy who served as a key member of the Culper Ring, providing crucial intelligence to George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abraham Woodhull canonical | 6 |
| Woodhull | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651452 — 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.
Target entity: Abraham Woodhull Context triple: [Turn: Washington's Spies, mainCharacter, Abraham Woodhull]
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Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith was a prominent 19th-century American social reformer, abolitionist, and philanthropist who used his wealth and political influence to support anti-slavery and other progressive causes.
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Grace Elvina Hinds
Grace Elvina Hinds was an American-born socialite best known as the second wife of British statesman and former Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.
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C.
Louise Holmes Anthony
Louise Holmes Anthony was the wife of American railroad magnate and Gilded Age elite Frederick William Vanderbilt, connecting her to one of the wealthiest and most prominent families of the era.
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D.
Theodore Tilton
Theodore Tilton was a 19th-century American newspaper editor, abolitionist, and writer best known for his role in the Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal.
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E.
Henry Browne Blackwell
Henry Browne Blackwell was a 19th-century American abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and prominent suffragist leader who co-founded and helped lead the American Woman Suffrage Association.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Abraham Woodhull Target entity description: Abraham Woodhull was a real-life American farmer and spy who served as a key member of the Culper Ring, providing crucial intelligence to George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith was a prominent 19th-century American social reformer, abolitionist, and philanthropist who used his wealth and political influence to support anti-slavery and other progressive causes.
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B.
Grace Elvina Hinds
Grace Elvina Hinds was an American-born socialite best known as the second wife of British statesman and former Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.
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C.
Louise Holmes Anthony
Louise Holmes Anthony was the wife of American railroad magnate and Gilded Age elite Frederick William Vanderbilt, connecting her to one of the wealthiest and most prominent families of the era.
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D.
Theodore Tilton
Theodore Tilton was a 19th-century American newspaper editor, abolitionist, and writer best known for his role in the Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal.
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E.
Henry Browne Blackwell
Henry Browne Blackwell was a 19th-century American abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and prominent suffragist leader who co-founded and helped lead the American Woman Suffrage Association.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War spy
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farmer ⓘ human ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Army
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| communicationMethod |
coded letters
ⓘ
courier network ⓘ invisible ink ⓘ |
| cooperatedWith |
Anna Strong
ⓘ
Benjamin Tallmadge ⓘ Caleb Brewster ⓘ George Washington ⓘ Robert Townsend ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonist ⓘ |
| familyName |
Abraham Woodhull
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Woodhull
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
agriculture
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espionage ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| ideology | support for American independence ⓘ |
| knownFor |
covertly gathering information on British troop movements
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using coded messages and aliases ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Culper Ring ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Culper Ring
ⓘ
surface form:
American intelligence service (Revolutionary era)
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| name | Abraham Woodhull self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a key member of the Culper Ring
ⓘ
providing intelligence during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork | intelligence gathering for George Washington ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
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intelligence agent ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| participantIn |
American Revolutionary War
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American intelligence operations in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| partOf |
Culper Ring
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolutionary War intelligence network
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| placeOfOrigin | Setauket, New York ⓘ |
| residence | Setauket, New York ⓘ |
| riskLevel | high personal risk of capture and execution ⓘ |
| role |
civilian spy
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intelligence source for George Washington ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | provided crucial intelligence on British forces in New York ⓘ |
| usedAlias | Samuel Culper Sr. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Abraham Woodhull Description of subject: Abraham Woodhull was a real-life American farmer and spy who served as a key member of the Culper Ring, providing crucial intelligence to George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (7)
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