Aaron Burr
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Aaron Burr was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States and is infamously known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aaron Burr canonical | 37 |
| Aaron Burr Sr. | 3 |
| Aaron Burr Jr. | 1 |
| Aaron Burr Sr. (grandfather) | 1 |
| Aaron Burr in Hamilton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T89767 — 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: Aaron Burr Context triple: [Thomas Jefferson, vicePresident, Aaron Burr]
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A.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father of the United States, the first Secretary of the Treasury, and a principal architect of the nation’s financial system and federal government structure.
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B.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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C.
Alexander J. Dallas
Alexander J. Dallas was an American lawyer, journalist, and statesman who became the first official Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court and later served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison.
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D.
Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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E.
William Marbury
William Marbury was an American Federalist whose denied judicial commission led him to sue Secretary of State James Madison, resulting in the landmark Supreme Court case that established judicial review in the United States.
- 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: Aaron Burr Target entity description: Aaron Burr was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States and is infamously known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
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A.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father of the United States, the first Secretary of the Treasury, and a principal architect of the nation’s financial system and federal government structure.
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B.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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C.
Alexander J. Dallas
Alexander J. Dallas was an American lawyer, journalist, and statesman who became the first official Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court and later served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison.
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D.
Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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E.
William Marbury
William Marbury was an American Federalist whose denied judicial commission led him to sue Secretary of State James Madison, resulting in the landmark Supreme Court case that established judicial review in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Aaron Burr Description of subject: Aaron Burr was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States and is infamously known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aaron Burr Jr.
this entity surface form:
Aaron Burr Sr.
this entity surface form:
Aaron Burr Sr.
subject surface form:
Hamilton
this entity surface form:
Aaron Burr in Hamilton
this entity surface form:
Aaron Burr Sr. (grandfather)
this entity surface form:
Aaron Burr Sr.
subject surface form:
United States national tour of Hamilton