Seth Low
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Seth Low was an American educator and politician who served as president of Columbia University and later as mayor of New York City.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seth Low canonical | 5 |
| Seth Low (indirectly, via Low Memorial Library) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6368507 — 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: Seth Low Context triple: [Columbia University Low Memorial Library, commissionedBy, Seth Low]
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A.
Seth Low Sr.
Seth Low Sr. was a prominent 19th-century New York merchant and philanthropist whose legacy includes having Columbia University's Low Memorial Library named in his honor.
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B.
Stilson Hutchins
Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
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C.
John Swope
John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
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D.
Alfred Corning Clark
Alfred Corning Clark was a 19th-century American heir, philanthropist, and art patron from the Singer sewing machine fortune, known for his cultural and charitable contributions in New York and Cooperstown.
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E.
George B. Cortelyou
George B. Cortelyou was an American public official who served in multiple cabinet positions under President Theodore Roosevelt, including as the first head of the Department of Commerce and Labor and later as Secretary of the Treasury.
- 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: Seth Low Target entity description: Seth Low was an American educator and politician who served as president of Columbia University and later as mayor of New York City.
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A.
Seth Low Sr.
Seth Low Sr. was a prominent 19th-century New York merchant and philanthropist whose legacy includes having Columbia University's Low Memorial Library named in his honor.
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B.
Stilson Hutchins
Stilson Hutchins was an American newspaper publisher best known as the founder of The Washington Post.
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C.
John Swope
John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
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D.
Alfred Corning Clark
Alfred Corning Clark was a 19th-century American heir, philanthropist, and art patron from the Singer sewing machine fortune, known for his cultural and charitable contributions in New York and Cooperstown.
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E.
George B. Cortelyou
George B. Cortelyou was an American public official who served in multiple cabinet positions under President Theodore Roosevelt, including as the first head of the Department of Commerce and Labor and later as Secretary of the Treasury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Seth Low Description of subject: Seth Low was an American educator and politician who served as president of Columbia University and later as mayor of New York City.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seth Low