Abraham Clark
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Abraham Clark was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey, best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abraham Clark canonical | 1 |
| Abraham Clarke | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5735831 — 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: Abraham Clark Context triple: [Annapolis Convention of 1786, secretary, Abraham Clark]
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A.
Samuel Franklin
Samuel Franklin was a lesser-known sibling in the large Franklin family that produced the famed American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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B.
Josiah Snelling
Josiah Snelling was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for commanding and overseeing the construction of the frontier outpost that became Fort Snelling in Minnesota.
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C.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
William Preston
William Preston was a notable figure significant enough in regional or local history that the town of Preston, Georgia, was named in his honor.
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E.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
- 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: Abraham Clark Target entity description: Abraham Clark was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey, best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
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A.
Samuel Franklin
Samuel Franklin was a lesser-known sibling in the large Franklin family that produced the famed American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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B.
Josiah Snelling
Josiah Snelling was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for commanding and overseeing the construction of the frontier outpost that became Fort Snelling in Minnesota.
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C.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
William Preston
William Preston was a notable figure significant enough in regional or local history that the town of Preston, Georgia, was named in his honor.
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E.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heat stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony of New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1726-02-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1794-09-15 ⓘ |
| diedInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignature | Abraham Clark signature image ⓘ |
| honoredIn |
Abraham Clark High School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Abraham Clark House (historic site) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Continental Congress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Jersey Legislature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | signing of the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 10 ⓘ |
| occupation |
clerk
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| partOf | New Jersey delegation to the Continental Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
British America
ⓘ
Elizabethtown, Province of New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rahway, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Patriot (American Revolution) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
delegate to the Continental Congress
ⓘ
member of the New Jersey General Assembly ⓘ member of the New Jersey Legislative Council ⓘ member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| represented | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rahway, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | United States Declaration of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Hatfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasBornInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
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: Abraham Clark Description of subject: Abraham Clark was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey, best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Abraham Clarke