William Howard Taft; 23.2%
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William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and later the 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the only person to have held both offices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Howard Taft; 23.2% canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5716075 — 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: William Howard Taft; 23.2% Context triple: [United States presidential election, 1912, popularVoteShare, William Howard Taft; 23.2%]
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Taft
Taft is a prominent American family name most famously associated with U.S. President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and his politically influential relatives.
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B.
Taft
Taft is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines.
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Taft
Taft is a small oil-producing city in southwestern Kern County, California, known historically for its role in the petroleum industry.
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D.
William Howard Taft III
William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Horace Dwight Taft
Horace Dwight Taft was an American educator best known as the founder and long-time headmaster of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
- 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: William Howard Taft; 23.2% Target entity description: William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and later the 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the only person to have held both offices.
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A.
Taft
Taft is a prominent American family name most famously associated with U.S. President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and his politically influential relatives.
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B.
Taft
Taft is a coastal municipality in the province of Eastern Samar in the Philippines.
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C.
Taft
Taft is a small oil-producing city in southwestern Kern County, California, known historically for its role in the petroleum industry.
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D.
William Howard Taft III
William Howard Taft III was an American diplomat and academic who notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Horace Dwight Taft
Horace Dwight Taft was an American educator best known as the founder and long-time headmaster of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chief Justice of the United States
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthName | William Howard Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiovascular disease ⓘ |
| child |
Charles Phelps Taft II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Helen Taft Manning NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert A. Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1857-09-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1930-03-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cincinnati Law School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| endTime |
1913-03-04 (presidency)
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1930-02-03 (chief justiceship) ⓘ |
| familyName | Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Alphonso Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| graduatedAs | second in his class at Yale University ⓘ |
| honor | Yale University’s Taft Professorship named in his honor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| mother | Louise Maria Torrey Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | only person to have served as both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork | advocacy for judicial reform ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| positionHeld |
10th Chief Justice of the United States
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27th President of the United States ⓘ Dean of the Cincinnati Law School ⓘ Governor-General of the Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ⓘ Provisional Governor of Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ Secretary of War of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Solicitor General of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Edward Douglass White (as Chief Justice of the United States)
NERFINISHED
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Theodore Roosevelt (as President of the United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| spouse | Helen Herron Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1909-03-04 (presidency)
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1921-07-11 (chief justiceship) ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Charles Evans Hughes (as Chief Justice of the United States)
NERFINISHED
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Woodrow Wilson (as President of the United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vicePresident | James S. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William Howard Taft; 23.2% Description of subject: William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and later the 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the only person to have held both offices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.