William Paterson
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American politician
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Founding Father of the United States
Governor of New Jersey
human
William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Paterson canonical | 10 |
| Founding Father William Paterson | 1 |
| William Paterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey | 1 |
| William Paterson, signer of the U.S. Constitution | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T252823 — 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 Paterson Context triple: [Framers of the United States Constitution, notableMember, William Paterson]
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A.
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
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B.
Frederick Muhlenberg
Frederick Muhlenberg was an American politician and clergyman who became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the early years of the republic.
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C.
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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D.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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E.
Edmund Randolph
Edmund Randolph was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the first U.S. Attorney General and played a key role in drafting and debating the U.S. Constitution.
- 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 Paterson Target entity description: William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
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A.
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
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B.
Frederick Muhlenberg
Frederick Muhlenberg was an American politician and clergyman who became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the early years of the republic.
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C.
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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D.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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E.
Edmund Randolph
Edmund Randolph was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the first U.S. Attorney General and played a key role in drafting and debating the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ Founding Father of the United States ⓘ Governor of New Jersey ⓘ human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Albany Rural Cemetery ⓘ |
| child | William Bell Paterson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1745-12-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1806-09-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
The College of New Jersey
ⓘ
surface form:
College of New Jersey
Princeton University ⓘ |
| familyName | Paterson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
ⓘ
state governance ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| honoredBy | William Paterson University ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | British America ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Federalists
ⓘ
surface form:
Federalist Party
|
| namesakeOf |
Paterson, New Jersey
ⓘ
William Paterson University ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| notableWork | New Jersey Plan ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| participantIn |
American Revolutionary War era politics
ⓘ
Constitutional Convention ⓘ
surface form:
Constitutional Convention (1787)
|
| placeOfBirth |
County Antrim
ⓘ
surface form:
County Antrim, Ireland
Kingdom of Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Albany
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, New York, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
Attorney General ⓘ
surface form:
Attorney General of New Jersey
Governor of New Jersey ⓘ United States Senator ⓘ
surface form:
United States Senator from New Jersey
delegate to the Constitutional Convention ⓘ delegate to the Continental Congress ⓘ member of the New Jersey Legislative Council ⓘ |
| proposed | New Jersey Plan ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| represented |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | United States Constitution ⓘ |
| spouse | Cornelia Bell ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York, New York
Philadelphia ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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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: William Paterson Description of subject: William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Paterson, 2nd Governor of New Jersey
this entity surface form:
William Paterson, signer of the U.S. Constitution
this entity surface form:
Founding Father William Paterson