Thomas Bladen Alexander
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Thomas Bladen Alexander was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Bladen Alexander canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3575811 — 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: Thomas Bladen Alexander Context triple: [Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurial, Thomas Bladen Alexander]
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A.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
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B.
Thomas Hudson Jones
Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
William Grady Little
William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
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D.
Robert Woodlark
Robert Woodlark was a 15th-century English priest and academic who served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and is best known for establishing St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
- 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: Thomas Bladen Alexander Target entity description: Thomas Bladen Alexander was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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A.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and educator who played a key role in shaping Reformed theological education in the United States.
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B.
Thomas Hudson Jones
Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
William Grady Little
William Grady Little is an American former Major League Baseball manager best known for managing the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers in the early 2000s.
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D.
Robert Woodlark
Robert Woodlark was a 15th-century English priest and academic who served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and is best known for establishing St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
William Eldred Jackson
William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| century of activity | 19th century ⓘ |
| country of citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| family name | Alexander ⓘ |
| given name | Thomas ⓘ |
| middle name | Bladen ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| position held |
United States Representative from Missouri
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member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| represented | Missouri ⓘ |
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: Thomas Bladen Alexander Description of subject: Thomas Bladen Alexander was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.