Wetmore
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Wetmore is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American architect and acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury James A. Wetmore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wetmore canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5829763 — 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: Wetmore Context triple: [James A. Wetmore, familyName, Wetmore]
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A.
Al Hibbler
Al Hibbler was an American baritone jazz and pop singer best known for his work with Duke Ellington’s orchestra and his hit recordings in the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Cuvier Grover
Cuvier Grover was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several major campaigns and battles.
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C.
Cockerell
Cockerell is an English surname notably borne by Sir Christopher Cockerell, the engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.
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D.
George Swanson Starling
George Swanson Starling was a key African American migrant whose life story in the early and mid-20th century exemplifies the struggles and aspirations of the Great Migration chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s work.
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E.
Esmond
Esmond is a village in the town of Smithfield in Providence County, Rhode Island, known historically for its textile mill and early industrial development.
- 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: Wetmore Target entity description: Wetmore is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American architect and acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury James A. Wetmore.
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A.
Al Hibbler
Al Hibbler was an American baritone jazz and pop singer best known for his work with Duke Ellington’s orchestra and his hit recordings in the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Cuvier Grover
Cuvier Grover was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several major campaigns and battles.
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C.
Cockerell
Cockerell is an English surname notably borne by Sir Christopher Cockerell, the engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.
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D.
George Swanson Starling
George Swanson Starling was a key African American migrant whose life story in the early and mid-20th century exemplifies the struggles and aspirations of the Great Migration chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s work.
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E.
Esmond
Esmond is a village in the town of Smithfield in Providence County, Rhode Island, known historically for its textile mill and early industrial development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed | federal government buildings in the United States ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | public architecture ⓘ |
| givenName |
Albert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alexander Wetmore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Peabody Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry C. Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ James A. Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert D. Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ William Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ William Wetmore Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
Story
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wetmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
ⓘ
art critic ⓘ civil servant ⓘ lawyer ⓘ merchant ⓘ ornithologist ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ sculptor ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury
ⓘ
Governor of Rhode Island ⓘ United States Senator from Rhode Island ⓘ |
| usedAs |
surname in Canada
ⓘ
surname in the United Kingdom ⓘ surname in the United States ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Wetmore Description of subject: Wetmore is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American architect and acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury James A. Wetmore.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.