Frederic Lansing
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Frederic Lansing was a member of the prominent Lansing family, related to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frederic Lansing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4226290 — 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: Frederic Lansing Context triple: [Robert Lansing, relative, Frederic Lansing]
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A.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
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B.
Frederick Haines
Frederick Haines was a British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army during the late 19th century.
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C.
Frederick Rosier
Frederick Rosier was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during and after the Second World War, including leadership of Fighter Command.
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D.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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E.
William Lanteau
William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
- 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: Frederic Lansing Target entity description: Frederic Lansing was a member of the prominent Lansing family, related to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
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A.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
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B.
Frederick Haines
Frederick Haines was a British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army during the late 19th century.
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C.
Frederick Rosier
Frederick Rosier was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during and after the Second World War, including leadership of Fighter Command.
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D.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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E.
William Lanteau
William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lansing ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily | Lansing family ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Robert Lansing ⓘ |
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: Frederic Lansing Description of subject: Frederic Lansing was a member of the prominent Lansing family, related to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.