Samuel Blodgett
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Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Blodgett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T360057 — 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 Blodgett Context triple: [First Bank of the United States, architect, Samuel Blodgett]
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A.
Robert F. Wagner
Robert F. Wagner was a prominent U.S. senator from New York known for championing New Deal labor reforms and workers’ rights.
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B.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Alfred N. Goldsmith was an American electrical engineer and radio pioneer who played a key role in the early development and professionalization of radio engineering.
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D.
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Henry Morgenthau Jr. was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for financing the New Deal and World War II and for his prominent role in shaping wartime economic and refugee policies.
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E.
George W. Norris
George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
- 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 Blodgett Target entity description: Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
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A.
Robert F. Wagner
Robert F. Wagner was a prominent U.S. senator from New York known for championing New Deal labor reforms and workers’ rights.
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B.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Alfred N. Goldsmith was an American electrical engineer and radio pioneer who played a key role in the early development and professionalization of radio engineering.
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D.
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Henry Morgenthau Jr. was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for financing the New Deal and World War II and for his prominent role in shaping wartime economic and refugee policies.
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E.
George W. Norris
George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financier
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| fieldOfWork |
finance
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law ⓘ real estate development ⓘ |
| genre | federal project planning ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in early U.S. federal projects
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role in the planning of Washington, D.C. ⓘ work associated with the First Bank of the United States ⓘ |
| notableProject |
First Bank of the United States
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planning and development of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| occupation |
financier
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lawyer ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
development of early federal institutions of the United States
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planning of the federal capital city of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, 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 Blodgett Description of subject: Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.