Jeremiah Jones Colbath
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Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeremiah Jones Colbath canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3703096 — 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: Jeremiah Jones Colbath Context triple: [Henry Wilson, birthName, Jeremiah Jones Colbath]
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A.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Attorney General who served under President James Buchanan.
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B.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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C.
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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D.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland was an American frontiersman and militia colonel best known for his leadership in the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Benjamin Garver Lamme
Benjamin Garver Lamme was an American electrical engineer and long-time Westinghouse chief engineer known for his pioneering work in alternating current machinery and power systems.
- 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: Jeremiah Jones Colbath Target entity description: Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
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A.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Attorney General who served under President James Buchanan.
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B.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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C.
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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D.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland was an American frontiersman and militia colonel best known for his leadership in the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Benjamin Garver Lamme
Benjamin Garver Lamme was an American electrical engineer and long-time Westinghouse chief engineer known for his pioneering work in alternating current machinery and power systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Vice President of the United States
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Henry Wilson ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Henry Wilson ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| changedNameTo | Henry Wilson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Colbath ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeremiah ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States Senate ⓘ |
| middleName | Jones ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| nameChangeReason | personal and political reasons ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the Republican Party during the American Civil War era
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service as 18th Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| notableRole | key Republican leader during Reconstruction ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1875 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1869 ⓘ |
| partOf | Grant administration ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Senator
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Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| representedIn | United States Congress ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Ulysses S. Grant ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jeremiah Jones Colbath Description of subject: Jeremiah Jones Colbath was the original name of Henry Wilson, a 19th-century American politician who became Vice President of the United States under Ulysses S. Grant.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.