James De Lancey
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James De Lancey was an 18th-century colonial American politician and jurist who served as chief justice and acting governor of the Province of New York.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James De Lancey canonical | 3 |
| James DeLancey | 2 |
| Étienne De Lancey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4899577 — 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: James De Lancey Context triple: [Delancey Street, namedAfter, James De Lancey]
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A.
Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
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B.
Benning Wentworth
Benning Wentworth was an 18th-century colonial governor of New Hampshire known for issuing numerous land grants that shaped settlement in New England.
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C.
Philip Schuyler
Philip Schuyler was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New York statesman who played a key role in organizing and leading early Continental Army operations in the northern colonies.
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D.
William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
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E.
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York, known as the son of Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler and a member of the prominent Schuyler family.
- 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: James De Lancey Target entity description: James De Lancey was an 18th-century colonial American politician and jurist who served as chief justice and acting governor of the Province of New York.
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A.
Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
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B.
Benning Wentworth
Benning Wentworth was an 18th-century colonial governor of New Hampshire known for issuing numerous land grants that shaped settlement in New England.
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C.
Philip Schuyler
Philip Schuyler was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New York statesman who played a key role in organizing and leading early Continental Army operations in the northern colonies.
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D.
William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
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E.
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York, known as the son of Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler and a member of the prominent Schuyler family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial governor
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ person ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1703-11-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Trinity Churchyard, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
Trinity Church Cemetery
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1760-07-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Inner Temple
ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Huguenot
ⓘ
linked to:
Huguenots
|
| family |
De Lancey family
ⓘ
linked to:
DeLancey family
|
| familyName |
De Lancey
ⓘ
linked to:
DeLancey
|
| father |
Étienne De Lancey
ⓘ
linked to:
James De Lancey
|
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influence in colonial New York politics
ⓘ
serving as acting governor of New York ⓘ serving as chief justice of New York ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Governor's Council of the Province of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Governor’s Council of New York
|
| monarchDuringTerm |
George II of Great Britain
ⓘ
George III of Great Britain ⓘ
linked to:
George III of the United Kingdom
|
| mother | Anne Van Cortlandt ⓘ |
| name | James De Lancey ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involvement in the John Peter Zenger trial ⓘ |
| notableRole | presiding judge in the John Peter Zenger trial ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership in the New York assembly during the French and Indian War ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1760 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
1733
ⓘ
1753 ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | colonial elite of New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Acting Governor of the Province of New York
ⓘ
Chief Justice of the Province of New York ⓘ Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New York ⓘ |
| region | British America ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| residence | Province of New York ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Heathcote ⓘ |
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: James De Lancey Description of subject: James De Lancey was an 18th-century colonial American politician and jurist who served as chief justice and acting governor of the Province of New York.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: James De Lancey