Leland Stanford
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Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leland Stanford canonical | 34 |
| Amasa Leland Stanford | 2 |
| Leland Stanford Jr. | 2 |
| Leland Stanford was president of the Central Pacific Railroad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140601 — 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: Leland Stanford Context triple: [Stanford University, founders, Leland Stanford]
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Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
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William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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C.
James J. Hill
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
Thomas M. Carnegie
Thomas M. Carnegie was an American industrialist and the younger brother and business partner of Andrew Carnegie, who played a key role in building the Carnegie steel empire in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Leland Stanford Target entity description: Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
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A.
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
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B.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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C.
James J. Hill
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
Thomas M. Carnegie
Thomas M. Carnegie was an American industrialist and the younger brother and business partner of Andrew Carnegie, who played a key role in building the Carnegie steel empire in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ industrialist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ politician ⓘ railroad magnate ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1824-03-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Albany County
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany County, New York
Watervliet, New York ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Central Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
Southern Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Stanford University
ⓘ
surface form:
Stanford University campus
|
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| child | Leland Stanford Jr. ⓘ |
| coFounded | Stanford University ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1893-06-21 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Palo Alto, California ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cazenovia Seminary
ⓘ
Clinton Liberal Academy ⓘ
surface form:
Clinton Liberal Institute
|
| employer |
Central Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
Southern Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| familyName | Stanford ⓘ |
| founded |
Stanford University
ⓘ
surface form:
Leland Stanford Junior University
Stanford University ⓘ |
| fullName |
Leland Stanford
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Amasa Leland Stanford
|
| givenName |
Amasa Delano
ⓘ
surface form:
Amasa
Leland ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Government of California
ⓘ
surface form:
California State Government
Republican Party ⓘ United States Senate ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Central Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
surface form:
Development of the Central Pacific Railroad
Stanford University ⓘ
surface form:
Founding of Stanford University
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| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
industrialist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ railroad executive ⓘ |
| owned |
Central Pacific Railroad
ⓘ
Southern Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Stanford Mausoleum ⓘ |
| politicalOfficeEnd |
Governor of California term end 1863
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U.S. Senator from California term end 1893 ⓘ |
| politicalOfficeStart |
Governor of California term start 1862
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U.S. Senator from California term start 1885 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of California
ⓘ
United States Senator ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Palo Alto, California
ⓘ
Sacramento ⓘ
surface form:
Sacramento, California
San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Stanford ⓘ |
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: Leland Stanford Description of subject: Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.