Thomas Jenkins Semmes
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Thomas Jenkins Semmes was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Louisiana who served as a Confederate senator during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Jenkins Semmes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5403968 — 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: Thomas Jenkins Semmes Context triple: [Raphael Semmes, relative, Thomas Jenkins Semmes]
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A.
Raphael Semmes
Raphael Semmes was a Confederate naval officer best known as the captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
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B.
Archibald Bulloch
Archibald Bulloch was an American lawyer, patriot leader, and Revolutionary-era statesman who became the first chief executive of the state of Georgia.
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C.
James D. Bulloch
James D. Bulloch was a prominent Confederate naval officer and secret agent who orchestrated the construction and acquisition of warships in Britain for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
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D.
James Stephens Bulloch
James Stephens Bulloch was a 19th-century Georgia planter and politician, notable as the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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E.
Stephen R. Mallory
Stephen R. Mallory was an American politician who served as the Confederate States' Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War.
- 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: Thomas Jenkins Semmes Target entity description: Thomas Jenkins Semmes was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Louisiana who served as a Confederate senator during the American Civil War.
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A.
Raphael Semmes
Raphael Semmes was a Confederate naval officer best known as the captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
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B.
Archibald Bulloch
Archibald Bulloch was an American lawyer, patriot leader, and Revolutionary-era statesman who became the first chief executive of the state of Georgia.
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C.
James D. Bulloch
James D. Bulloch was a prominent Confederate naval officer and secret agent who orchestrated the construction and acquisition of warships in Britain for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
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D.
James Stephens Bulloch
James Stephens Bulloch was a 19th-century Georgia planter and politician, notable as the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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E.
Stephen R. Mallory
Stephen R. Mallory was an American politician who served as the Confederate States' Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Confederate States of America senator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Semmes ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| jurisdictionPracticedIn | Louisiana ⓘ |
| legalProfession | attorney ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Confederate States Senate
ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate Congress
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| middleName | Jenkins ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
legal and political career in Louisiana
ⓘ
service as a Confederate senator during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Confederate States senator
ⓘ
member of the Confederate States Senate from Louisiana ⓘ |
| represented | Louisiana ⓘ |
| residence | Louisiana ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Louisiana
ⓘ
New Orleans ⓘ |
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: Thomas Jenkins Semmes Description of subject: Thomas Jenkins Semmes was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Louisiana who served as a Confederate senator during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.