Samuel D. Ingham
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Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel D. Ingham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2512632 — 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: Samuel D. Ingham Context triple: [Ingham County, Michigan, namedAfter, Samuel D. Ingham]
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A.
Elias B. Caldwell
Elias B. Caldwell was an early 19th-century American lawyer and reformer best known as a founding figure of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the resettlement of free African Americans to Africa.
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B.
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
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C.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Charles A. Coffin
Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
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E.
Arthur S. Carpender
Arthur S. Carpender was a United States Navy admiral and World War II destroyer commander known for his leadership in the Pacific theater.
- 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: Samuel D. Ingham Target entity description: Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
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A.
Elias B. Caldwell
Elias B. Caldwell was an early 19th-century American lawyer and reformer best known as a founding figure of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the resettlement of free African Americans to Africa.
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B.
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
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C.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Charles A. Coffin
Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
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E.
Arthur S. Carpender
Arthur S. Carpender was a United States Navy admiral and World War II destroyer commander known for his leadership in the Pacific theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Secretary of the Treasury
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Andrew Jackson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Pennsylvania
United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| familyName | Ingham ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ public finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic-Republican Party
ⓘ
Jacksonian ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in Andrew Jackson's cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | seat in the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| participantIn |
19th-century American politics
ⓘ
United States federal government ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| partOf | Jackson administration ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
United States Representative ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Treasury
member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ⓘ |
| residence | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesBorderWith | N/A ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
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: Samuel D. Ingham Description of subject: Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.