John Peter Altgeld
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John Peter Altgeld was a Progressive-era Governor of Illinois (1893–1897) best known for his controversial pardon of three Haymarket Affair defendants and his advocacy for labor and social justice reforms.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Peter Altgeld canonical | 8 |
| Altgeld | 2 |
| Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385750 — 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: John Peter Altgeld Context triple: [Oak Ridge Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, John Peter Altgeld]
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A.
Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid was an American newspaper editor, diplomat, and Republican politician who served as U.S. ambassador to France and the United Kingdom and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1892.
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B.
Thomas A. Hendricks
Thomas A. Hendricks was a 19th-century American Democratic politician who served as the 21st vice president of the United States and previously as governor of Indiana and a U.S. senator.
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C.
Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
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D.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was an American politician and member of the Kaw Nation who served as the 31st vice president of the United States and was the first person of significant Native American ancestry to hold that office.
- 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: John Peter Altgeld Target entity description: John Peter Altgeld was a Progressive-era Governor of Illinois (1893–1897) best known for his controversial pardon of three Haymarket Affair defendants and his advocacy for labor and social justice reforms.
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A.
Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid was an American newspaper editor, diplomat, and Republican politician who served as U.S. ambassador to France and the United Kingdom and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1892.
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B.
Thomas A. Hendricks
Thomas A. Hendricks was a 19th-century American Democratic politician who served as the 21st vice president of the United States and previously as governor of Indiana and a U.S. senator.
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C.
Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
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D.
Alexander Cushing
Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was an American politician and member of the Kaw Nation who served as the 31st vice president of the United States and was the first person of significant Native American ancestry to hold that office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of Illinois
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
improved workplace safety
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labor rights ⓘ public education improvements ⓘ reforms to child labor laws ⓘ reforms to the criminal justice system ⓘ shorter working hours ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
labor reform
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social reform ⓘ state politics ⓘ |
| birthPlace | near Niederselters, Hesse, Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German American ⓘ |
| familyName |
John Peter Altgeld
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Altgeld
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| givenName | John ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for labor reforms
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advocacy for social justice reforms ⓘ criticism of President Grover Cleveland over the Pullman Strike ⓘ opposition to use of state troops against striking workers ⓘ pardon of three Haymarket Affair defendants ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Peter ⓘ |
| movement |
Progressive Era
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surface form:
Progressivism
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| notableWork |
public statements on the Haymarket Affair
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writings on social and legal reform ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1897 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1893 ⓘ |
| opposed |
corporate influence in politics
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use of injunctions against labor unions ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Illinois ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Illinois ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Springfield, Illinois ⓘ
surface form:
Springfield, Illinois, United States
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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: John Peter Altgeld Description of subject: John Peter Altgeld was a Progressive-era Governor of Illinois (1893–1897) best known for his controversial pardon of three Haymarket Affair defendants and his advocacy for labor and social justice reforms.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld
subject surface form:
Graceland Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Altgeld
subject surface form:
John Peter Altgeld
this entity surface form:
Altgeld