James Clair Flood
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James Clair Flood was a prominent 19th-century American financier and mining magnate who amassed great wealth from Nevada's Comstock Lode silver mines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Clair Flood canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5571430 — 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: James Clair Flood Context triple: [Bonanza Kings, member, James Clair Flood]
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A.
Thomas Fishburn
Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
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B.
James Blair
James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
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C.
James Blair
James Blair is a notable former student of Aberdeen Grammar School, recognized for his achievements after attending the historic Scottish secondary school.
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D.
William Jackson
William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
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E.
Joseph Drake
Joseph Drake is a film producer and studio executive known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and genre 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: James Clair Flood Target entity description: James Clair Flood was a prominent 19th-century American financier and mining magnate who amassed great wealth from Nevada's Comstock Lode silver mines.
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A.
Thomas Fishburn
Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
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B.
James Blair
James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
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C.
James Blair
James Blair is a notable former student of Aberdeen Grammar School, recognized for his achievements after attending the historic Scottish secondary school.
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D.
William Jackson
William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
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E.
Joseph Drake
Joseph Drake is a film producer and studio executive known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and genre films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financier
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Big Bonanza strike on the Comstock Lode ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Comstock Lode, Nevada, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Comstock Lode area
Virginia City, Nevada, United States ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1826-10-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Staten Island, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Staten Island
|
| builtFor | Flood Mansion, San Francisco ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, California, United States ⓘ |
| businessPartner |
James Graham Fair
ⓘ
John William Mackay ⓘ William S. O'Brien ⓘ |
| causeOfWealth | speculation in Comstock Lode mining stocks ⓘ |
| child |
James L. Flood
ⓘ
Mary Emma Flood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1889-02-21 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Flood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
investment
ⓘ
silver mining ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasWealthFrom |
Comstock Lode silver mines
ⓘ
linked to:
Comstock Lode area
|
| industry |
finance
ⓘ
mining industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
amassing great wealth from silver mining
ⓘ
being one of the Bonanza Kings ⓘ investments in the Comstock Lode ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bonanza Kings
ⓘ
linked to:
Bonanza kings
|
| name | James Clair Flood ⓘ |
| notableProperty | Flood Mansion, San Francisco ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of the California Mine on the Comstock Lode
ⓘ
development of the Consolidated Virginia Mine ⓘ |
| occupation |
financier
ⓘ
investor ⓘ mining entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Menlo Park, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Menlo Park, California
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Emma Leary ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: James Clair Flood Description of subject: James Clair Flood was a prominent 19th-century American financier and mining magnate who amassed great wealth from Nevada's Comstock Lode silver mines.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bonanza kings
subject linked to:
James Graham Fair was a mine superintendent and later U.S. Senator
subject linked to:
James Clair Flood was the primary financier
subject linked to:
William S. O'Brien was a financial partner