Luther W. Guiteau
E394843
Luther W. Guiteau was the father of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Luther W. Guiteau canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3808652 — 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: Luther W. Guiteau Context triple: [Charles J. Guiteau, father, Luther W. Guiteau]
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A.
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
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B.
John Wellborn Root
John Wellborn Root was a pioneering American architect of the late 19th century, best known for his influential role in developing early skyscraper design and shaping the Chicago School of architecture.
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C.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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D.
Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz was an American anarchist best known for assassinating U.S. President William McKinley in 1901.
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E.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
- 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: Luther W. Guiteau Target entity description: Luther W. Guiteau was the father of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield.
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A.
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
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B.
John Wellborn Root
John Wellborn Root was a pioneering American architect of the late 19th century, best known for his influential role in developing early skyscraper design and shaping the Chicago School of architecture.
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C.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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D.
Leon Czolgosz
Leon Czolgosz was an American anarchist best known for assassinating U.S. President William McKinley in 1901.
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E.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Charles J. Guiteau ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Luther W. Guiteau ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield ⓘ |
| relative | Charles J. Guiteau ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Luther W. Guiteau Description of subject: Luther W. Guiteau was the father of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.