Gilman
E490910
Gilman is a surname most notably associated with Daniel Coit Gilman, a pioneering American educator and first president of Johns Hopkins University.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5061660 — 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: Gilman Context triple: [Daniel Coit Gilman, familyName, Gilman]
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A.
McClurg
McClurg is the namesake of the historic McClurg Building, a notable structure recognized for its architectural and cultural significance.
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B.
Melvil
Melvil is the given name of Melvil Dewey, the American librarian and educator best known for creating the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
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C.
Hollingworth
Hollingworth is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, situated near the Longdendale valley.
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D.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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E.
Wells Root
Wells Root was an American screenwriter known for adapting popular novels and crafting screenplays for mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
- 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: Gilman Target entity description: Gilman is a surname most notably associated with Daniel Coit Gilman, a pioneering American educator and first president of Johns Hopkins University.
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A.
McClurg
McClurg is the namesake of the historic McClurg Building, a notable structure recognized for its architectural and cultural significance.
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B.
Melvil
Melvil is the given name of Melvil Dewey, the American librarian and educator best known for creating the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
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C.
Hollingworth
Hollingworth is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, situated near the Longdendale valley.
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D.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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E.
Wells Root
Wells Root was an American screenwriter known for adapting popular novels and crafting screenplays for mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Honorary degrees from various universities ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1831-07-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1908-10-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| familyName | Gilman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
higher education
ⓘ
university administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Daniel Coit Gilman ⓘ |
| influenced | development of American research universities ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Skull and Bones ⓘ |
| movement | research university model in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first president of Johns Hopkins University
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helping to establish the modern American graduate school model ⓘ promoting the integration of teaching and research in universities ⓘ |
| notableWork | organizational development of Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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educator ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Norwich, Connecticut, United States
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linked to:
Norwich, Connecticut
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| placeOfDeath |
Norwich, Connecticut, United States
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linked to:
Norwich, Connecticut
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| positionHeld |
President of Johns Hopkins University
ⓘ
President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington ⓘ President of the University of California ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| residence |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States ⓘ
linked to:
New Haven, Connecticut
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Ketcham Gilman ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Gilman Description of subject: Gilman is a surname most notably associated with Daniel Coit Gilman, a pioneering American educator and first president of Johns Hopkins University.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.