Thomas Stone
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Thomas Stone was an American planter, lawyer, and Founding Father who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Maryland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Stone canonical | 4 |
| Thomas Stone (historical) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4406873 — 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 Stone Context triple: [Thomas Stone National Historic Site, namedAfter, Thomas Stone]
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A.
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia who introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress and later signed the Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Edmund Pendleton
Edmund Pendleton was an American lawyer, judge, and political leader from Virginia who played a key role in the early governance of the state during the Revolutionary era.
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C.
William Grayson
William Grayson was an American Revolutionary War officer, early U.S. senator from Virginia, and prominent Anti-Federalist critic of the proposed U.S. Constitution.
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D.
Charles Fairfax
Charles Fairfax was an English military commander best known for his role in the protracted early-17th-century conflicts of the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
William Few
William Few was an American Founding Father, Georgia politician, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who played a key role in the early federal government.
- 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 Stone Target entity description: Thomas Stone was an American planter, lawyer, and Founding Father who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Maryland.
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A.
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia who introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress and later signed the Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Edmund Pendleton
Edmund Pendleton was an American lawyer, judge, and political leader from Virginia who played a key role in the early governance of the state during the Revolutionary era.
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C.
William Grayson
William Grayson was an American Revolutionary War officer, early U.S. senator from Virginia, and prominent Anti-Federalist critic of the proposed U.S. Constitution.
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D.
Charles Fairfax
Charles Fairfax was an English military commander best known for his role in the protracted early-17th-century conflicts of the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
William Few
William Few was an American Founding Father, Georgia politician, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who played a key role in the early federal government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Stone Description of subject: Thomas Stone was an American planter, lawyer, and Founding Father who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Maryland.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Stone