Samuel Dexter
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Samuel Dexter was an American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Dexter canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4853950 — 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: Samuel Dexter Context triple: [Dexter, Maine, namedAfter, Samuel Dexter]
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A.
Pierce Hawthorne
Pierce Hawthorne is a wealthy, bigoted, and often clueless older student at Greendale Community College in the sitcom "Community," known for his inappropriate remarks and strained relationships with the study group.
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B.
William Hathaway
William Hathaway was a Democratic U.S. Senator and Representative from Maine who served in Congress during the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Mortimer Brewster
Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
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D.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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E.
Sylvester Smith
Sylvester Smith is a person known primarily as the sibling of Sophia Smith.
- 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: Samuel Dexter Target entity description: Samuel Dexter was an American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury in the early 19th century.
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A.
Pierce Hawthorne
Pierce Hawthorne is a wealthy, bigoted, and often clueless older student at Greendale Community College in the sitcom "Community," known for his inappropriate remarks and strained relationships with the study group.
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B.
William Hathaway
William Hathaway was a Democratic U.S. Senator and Representative from Maine who served in Congress during the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Mortimer Brewster
Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
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D.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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E.
Sylvester Smith
Sylvester Smith is a person known primarily as the sibling of Sophia Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| appointedBy | John Adams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1761-05-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1816-05-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Dexter ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
Massachusetts House of Representatives
ⓘ
United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Federalist Party
ⓘ
linked to:
Federalists
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Service as U.S. Secretary of War
ⓘ
Service as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
|
| placeOfDeath | Athol, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
ⓘ
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts ⓘ United States Secretary of War ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of War
United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Senator from Massachusetts ⓘ
linked to:
United States Senator
|
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| represented | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Massachusetts
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Samuel Dexter Description of subject: Samuel Dexter was an American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.