John Tayler
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John Tayler was an American politician who briefly served as acting Governor of New York in the early 19th century and held several key state offices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Tayler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4810393 — 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: John Tayler Context triple: [Daniel D. Tompkins, succeededBy (Governor of New York), John Tayler]
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A.
George William
George William was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Welf who ruled the Principality of Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Charles Wyatt
Charles Wyatt was a British architect active in colonial India, best known for designing prominent public buildings in Calcutta during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Arthur Stuart
Arthur Stuart is a fictional journalist and former glam-rock fan who serves as the introspective narrator investigating the rise and fall of a 1970s rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
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D.
James Craig
James Craig was a prominent Northern Irish politician who became the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and a leading figure in the unionist movement.
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E.
James Craig
James Craig was an American film actor active primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood studio productions.
- 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: John Tayler Target entity description: John Tayler was an American politician who briefly served as acting Governor of New York in the early 19th century and held several key state offices.
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A.
George William
George William was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Welf who ruled the Principality of Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Charles Wyatt
Charles Wyatt was a British architect active in colonial India, best known for designing prominent public buildings in Calcutta during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Arthur Stuart
Arthur Stuart is a fictional journalist and former glam-rock fan who serves as the introspective narrator investigating the rise and fall of a 1970s rock icon in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
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D.
James Craig
James Craig was a prominent Northern Irish politician who became the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and a leading figure in the unionist movement.
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E.
James Craig
James Craig was an American film actor active primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood studio productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tayler ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic-Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableFor |
briefly serving as acting Governor of New York in the early 19th century
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holding several key state offices in New York ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
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politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Acting Governor of New York
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Lieutenant Governor of New York ⓘ Member of the New York State Assembly ⓘ Member of the New York State Senate ⓘ Presidential elector ⓘ |
| residence |
Albany, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Albany
New York (state) ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
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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: John Tayler Description of subject: John Tayler was an American politician who briefly served as acting Governor of New York in the early 19th century and held several key state offices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.