Schuyler
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Schuyler is a given name most notably borne by Schuyler Colfax, the 17th vice president of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Schuyler canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2959819 — 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: Schuyler Context triple: [Schuyler Colfax, givenName, Schuyler]
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A.
Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler
Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of New York and one of the three Schuyler sisters later popularized by the musical "Hamilton."
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B.
Schuyler family
The Schuyler family was a prominent Dutch-American political and military dynasty in colonial and early United States history, influential in New York society and closely connected to figures of the American Revolution.
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C.
Angelica Schuyler
Angelica Schuyler is a prominent character in the musical "Hamilton," portrayed as Alexander Hamilton’s brilliant, witty, and politically astute sister-in-law.
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D.
Sarah Gouverneur
Sarah Gouverneur was an American colonial-era woman best known as the mother of Founding Father and U.S. Constitution framer Gouverneur Morris.
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E.
Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the highly educated and beloved daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, remembered for her close intellectual relationship with her father and her mysterious disappearance at sea in 1813.
- 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: Schuyler Target entity description: Schuyler is a given name most notably borne by Schuyler Colfax, the 17th vice president of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
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A.
Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler
Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of New York and one of the three Schuyler sisters later popularized by the musical "Hamilton."
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B.
Schuyler family
The Schuyler family was a prominent Dutch-American political and military dynasty in colonial and early United States history, influential in New York society and closely connected to figures of the American Revolution.
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C.
Angelica Schuyler
Angelica Schuyler is a prominent character in the musical "Hamilton," portrayed as Alexander Hamilton’s brilliant, witty, and politically astute sister-in-law.
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D.
Sarah Gouverneur
Sarah Gouverneur was an American colonial-era woman best known as the mother of Founding Father and U.S. Constitution framer Gouverneur Morris.
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E.
Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the highly educated and beloved daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, remembered for her close intellectual relationship with her father and her mysterious disappearance at sea in 1813.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
human ⓘ unisex given name ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1823-03-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1885-01-13 ⓘ |
| givenName | Schuyler ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
scholar
ⓘ
student ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Schuyler Colfax ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Schuylar
ⓘ
Skylar ⓘ Skyler ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Republican Party
|
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 17 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mankato, Minnesota ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| predecessor | Andrew Johnson ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| spouse | Ellen Maria Wade ⓘ |
| successor | Henry Wilson ⓘ |
| vicePresidentOf | United States of America ⓘ |
| vicePresidentUnder | Ulysses S. Grant ⓘ |
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: Schuyler Description of subject: Schuyler is a given name most notably borne by Schuyler Colfax, the 17th vice president of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.