Isaac Bedloe
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Isaac Bedloe was a 17th-century New York merchant and landowner after whom Bedloe's Island—now Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty—was named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isaac Bedloe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2710567 — 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: Isaac Bedloe Context triple: [Bedloe's Island, namedAfter, Isaac Bedloe]
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A.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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B.
Samuel Ballard
Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
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C.
Bartholomew Dandridge
Bartholomew Dandridge was a colonial-era Virginian lawyer and politician who served on the Virginia Governor’s Council and was the brother-in-law of U.S. President George Washington.
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D.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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E.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
- 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: Isaac Bedloe Target entity description: Isaac Bedloe was a 17th-century New York merchant and landowner after whom Bedloe's Island—now Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty—was named.
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A.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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B.
Samuel Ballard
Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
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C.
Bartholomew Dandridge
Bartholomew Dandridge was a colonial-era Virginian lawyer and politician who served on the Virginia Governor’s Council and was the brother-in-law of U.S. President George Washington.
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D.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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E.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
island ⓘ landowner ⓘ merchant ⓘ monument ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| containsStatue | Statue of Liberty ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfActivity | New York Colony ⓘ |
| familyName | Bedloe ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac ⓘ |
| hasIslandNamedAfter | Bedloe's Island ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Liberty Island ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Upper New York Bay ⓘ |
| locatedInOrNextTo | New York Harbor ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | New York ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Bedloe's Island
ⓘ
Liberty Island ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Isaac Bedloe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ |
| partOf | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
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: Isaac Bedloe Description of subject: Isaac Bedloe was a 17th-century New York merchant and landowner after whom Bedloe's Island—now Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty—was named.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bedloe's Island