Thomas Hunter
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Thomas Hunter was an Irish-born American educator and reformer best known as the founding president of what became Hunter College in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Hunter canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3553905 — 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: Thomas Hunter Context triple: [Hunter College, foundedBy, Thomas Hunter]
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Lyman Cornelius Smith
Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
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Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
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Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Thomas Hunter Target entity description: Thomas Hunter was an Irish-born American educator and reformer best known as the founding president of what became Hunter College in New York City.
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A.
Lyman Cornelius Smith
Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
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C.
Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
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D.
Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish emigrant to the United States
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academic administrator ⓘ education reformer ⓘ educator ⓘ university and college founder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
State Female Normal School
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surface form:
Female Normal and High School, New York City
Hunter College ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Hunter ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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educational reform ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasHonorificNamesake |
Hunter College
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Hunter College High School ⓘ |
| hasParticularSignificance | history of Hunter College ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of public higher education for women in New York City
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teacher training standards in New York City ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | education reform in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the founding president of what became Hunter College
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leadership in teacher education in New York City ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of what became Hunter College
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founding of the Female Normal and High School in New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founding president of the Female Normal and High School
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president of what became Hunter College ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Thomas Hunter Description of subject: Thomas Hunter was an Irish-born American educator and reformer best known as the founding president of what became Hunter College in New York City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.