Amasa Stone
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Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amasa Stone canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4333232 — 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: Amasa Stone Context triple: [John Hay, fatherInLaw, Amasa Stone]
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A.
Elizur Holyoke
Elizur Holyoke was a 17th-century English colonist and surveyor in New England whose explorations and land divisions in the Connecticut River Valley led to several places, including the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, bearing his name.
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B.
Josiah Eaton
Josiah Eaton was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Eatonville, Florida, was named in his honor.
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C.
Amos G. Throop
Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
James Mott
James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
- 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: Amasa Stone Target entity description: Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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A.
Elizur Holyoke
Elizur Holyoke was a 17th-century English colonist and surveyor in New England whose explorations and land divisions in the Connecticut River Valley led to several places, including the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, bearing his name.
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B.
Josiah Eaton
Josiah Eaton was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Eatonville, Florida, was named in his honor.
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C.
Amos G. Throop
Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
James Mott
James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Amasa Stone Description of subject: Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.