Henry James Sr.
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Henry James Sr. was a 19th-century American theologian and Swedenborgian philosopher, best known as the intellectually influential father of novelist Henry James and psychologist William James.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry James Sr. canonical | 22 |
| Henry James Jr. | 2 |
| Henry James (1811–1882) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T402545 — 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: Henry James Sr. Context triple: [Henry James, father, Henry James Sr.]
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A.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
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B.
Henry James
Henry James was an influential American-born British author known for his psychologically complex novels and stories exploring consciousness, perception, and social relationships.
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C.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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D.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
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E.
Langdon Clemens
Langdon Clemens was the firstborn son of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who died in infancy.
- 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: Henry James Sr. Target entity description: Henry James Sr. was a 19th-century American theologian and Swedenborgian philosopher, best known as the intellectually influential father of novelist Henry James and psychologist William James.
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A.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
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B.
Henry James
Henry James was an influential American-born British author known for his psychologically complex novels and stories exploring consciousness, perception, and social relationships.
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C.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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D.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
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E.
Langdon Clemens
Langdon Clemens was the firstborn son of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who died in infancy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Henry James Sr. Description of subject: Henry James Sr. was a 19th-century American theologian and Swedenborgian philosopher, best known as the intellectually influential father of novelist Henry James and psychologist William James.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henry James (1811–1882)
this entity surface form:
Henry James Jr.
this entity surface form:
Henry James Jr.
subject surface form:
Mary Walsh James
subject surface form:
Henry James
subject surface form:
William James
subject surface form:
Alice James