Samuel Nelson
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Samuel Nelson was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Nelson canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T57879 — 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 Nelson Context triple: [Nelson, hasNotableBearer, Samuel Nelson]
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A.
Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
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B.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Attorney General who served under President James Buchanan.
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C.
Benjamin Rein Brady
Benjamin Rein Brady is the son of legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady and his ex-partner, actress and model Bridget Moynahan.
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D.
Matthew Sands
Matthew Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as one of the co-authors of the influential textbook series "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."
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E.
James Clark
James Clark is a notable figure in the web and technology community recognized for his significant contributions to open standards and digital publishing.
- 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 Nelson Target entity description: Samuel Nelson was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872.
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A.
Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
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B.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black
Jeremiah Sullivan Black was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Attorney General who served under President James Buchanan.
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C.
Benjamin Rein Brady
Benjamin Rein Brady is the son of legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady and his ex-partner, actress and model Bridget Moynahan.
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D.
Matthew Sands
Matthew Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as one of the co-authors of the influential textbook series "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."
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E.
James Clark
James Clark is a notable figure in the web and technology community recognized for his significant contributions to open standards and digital publishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Nelson Description of subject: Samuel Nelson was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
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succeededInOfficeAsAssociateJusticeBy
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Samuel Nelson
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subject surface form:
Smith Thompson
subject surface form:
Ward Hunt