William Hull
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William Hull was an American soldier and politician best known as the first governor of the Michigan Territory and for his controversial surrender of Detroit during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Hull canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4734690 — 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: William Hull Context triple: [Michigan Territory, hasGovernor, William Hull]
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A.
Henry Hastings Sibley
Henry Hastings Sibley was an American politician, fur trader, and military leader who became the first governor of Minnesota and played a central role in U.S. military actions against the Dakota during the 1862 conflict.
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B.
Henry Dodge
Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
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C.
Henry Leavenworth
Henry Leavenworth was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and frontier commander whose military service on the American frontier led to several places, including Leavenworth, Kansas, being named in his honor.
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D.
Frederick William Stevens
Frederick William Stevens was a British colonial-era architect in India best known for designing landmark public buildings in Mumbai in the late 19th century.
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E.
John Alexander Logan
John Alexander Logan was a prominent 19th-century American Civil War general and influential Republican politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Illinois.
- 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: William Hull Target entity description: William Hull was an American soldier and politician best known as the first governor of the Michigan Territory and for his controversial surrender of Detroit during the War of 1812.
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A.
Henry Hastings Sibley
Henry Hastings Sibley was an American politician, fur trader, and military leader who became the first governor of Minnesota and played a central role in U.S. military actions against the Dakota during the 1862 conflict.
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B.
Henry Dodge
Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
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C.
Henry Leavenworth
Henry Leavenworth was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and frontier commander whose military service on the American frontier led to several places, including Leavenworth, Kansas, being named in his honor.
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D.
Frederick William Stevens
Frederick William Stevens was a British colonial-era architect in India best known for designing landmark public buildings in Mumbai in the late 19th century.
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E.
John Alexander Logan
John Alexander Logan was a prominent 19th-century American Civil War general and influential Republican politician who served as a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William Hull Description of subject: William Hull was an American soldier and politician best known as the first governor of the Michigan Territory and for his controversial surrender of Detroit during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.