J. C. Adams
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J. C. Adams was a 19th-century British mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| J. C. Adams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5048067 — 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: J. C. Adams Context triple: [Adams Prize, namedAfter, J. C. Adams]
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A.
James T. Fields
James T. Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publisher, editor, and poet known for championing major literary figures of his era.
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B.
William Starr Miller
William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
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C.
Horace White
Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
James G. Smyth
James G. Smyth was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
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E.
William Croswell Doane
William Croswell Doane was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop known for his influential leadership, church building efforts, and role in shaping the Episcopal Church in New York.
- 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: J. C. Adams Target entity description: J. C. Adams was a 19th-century British mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.
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A.
James T. Fields
James T. Fields was a prominent 19th-century American publisher, editor, and poet known for championing major literary figures of his era.
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B.
William Starr Miller
William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
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C.
Horace White
Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
James G. Smyth
James G. Smyth was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
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E.
William Croswell Doane
William Croswell Doane was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop known for his influential leadership, church building efforts, and role in shaping the Episcopal Church in New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: J. C. Adams Description of subject: J. C. Adams was a 19th-century British mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.