Peter Cooper
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Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Cooper canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3097817 — 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: Peter Cooper Context triple: [Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, namedAfter, Peter Cooper]
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A.
Thomas N. Downing
Thomas N. Downing was an American Democratic congressman from Virginia known for his role in initiating and leading congressional investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
Lewis Tappan
Lewis Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and businessman who played a key role in the anti-slavery movement and in supporting the legal defense of the Amistad captives.
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C.
Ogden Livingston Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills was an American financier and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover during the early years of the Great Depression.
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
Leffert L. Buck
Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
- 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: Peter Cooper Target entity description: Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
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A.
Thomas N. Downing
Thomas N. Downing was an American Democratic congressman from Virginia known for his role in initiating and leading congressional investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
Lewis Tappan
Lewis Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and businessman who played a key role in the anti-slavery movement and in supporting the legal defense of the Amistad captives.
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C.
Ogden Livingston Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills was an American financier and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover during the early years of the Great Depression.
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
Leffert L. Buck
Leffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer known for his pioneering work in long-span bridge design at the turn of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ industrialist ⓘ inventor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
Green-Wood Cemetery ⓘ |
| candidateInElection |
1876 United States presidential election
ⓘ
surface form:
United States presidential election of 1876
|
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child |
Edward Cooper
ⓘ
Sarah Amelia Cooper ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1791-02-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1883-04-04 ⓘ |
| designed | Tom Thumb (locomotive) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooper ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education philanthropy
ⓘ
engineering ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| founded |
Cooper Union
ⓘ
Cooper Union ⓘ
surface form:
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | English descent ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Cooper Union Foundation Building
ⓘ
surface form:
Cooper Union Foundation Building (as founder’s project)
|
| honoredIn |
Cooper Square
ⓘ
surface form:
Cooper Square, Manhattan
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| knownFor |
development of the Tom Thumb steam locomotive
ⓘ
founding Cooper Union ⓘ philanthropy in education ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Greenback Party ⓘ |
| name | Peter Cooper self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cooper Union
ⓘ
surface form:
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
|
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
industrialist ⓘ inventor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| owned |
glue factory
ⓘ
iron works in New York ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | presidential candidate of the Greenback Party ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Gramercy
ⓘ
surface form:
Gramercy Park, Manhattan
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Bedell ⓘ |
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: Peter Cooper Description of subject: Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tom Thumb (locomotive)
subject surface form:
Green-Wood Cemetery