Dexter Horton
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Dexter Horton was a pioneering Seattle banker best known for founding the city's first successful bank, which later evolved into part of Wells Fargo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dexter Horton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6448932 — 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: Dexter Horton Context triple: [Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, notableBurial, Dexter Horton]
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A.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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B.
Oscar Diggs
Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
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C.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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D.
James Dixon
James Dixon is a television producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Jon Stewart on shows like The Daily Show and The Problem with Jon Stewart.
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E.
Derrick Sherwin
Derrick Sherwin was a British television producer, script editor, and writer best known for his influential work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who during the late 1960s.
- 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: Dexter Horton Target entity description: Dexter Horton was a pioneering Seattle banker best known for founding the city's first successful bank, which later evolved into part of Wells Fargo.
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A.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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B.
Oscar Diggs
Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
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C.
Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
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D.
James Dixon
James Dixon is a television producer best known for his long-time collaboration with Jon Stewart on shows like The Daily Show and The Problem with Jon Stewart.
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E.
Derrick Sherwin
Derrick Sherwin was a British television producer, script editor, and writer best known for his influential work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who during the late 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bank
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banker ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityStartPlace | Pacific Northwest, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Seattle-First National Bank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wells Fargo (through successor institutions) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1825-11-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Seneca Lake, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| deathDate | 1904-07-15 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Dexter Horton & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | European American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Horton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Dexter Horton & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Dexter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | banking ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Dexter Horton & Co.
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founding the first successful bank in Seattle ⓘ |
| legacy | his banking enterprise eventually became part of Wells Fargo ⓘ |
| location |
Seattle, Washington, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | pioneer banker in Seattle ⓘ |
| notableWork | establishing a stable banking system in early Seattle ⓘ |
| occupation |
banker
ⓘ
businessman ⓘ |
| partOf | early economic development of Seattle ⓘ |
| predecessor | Dexter Horton National Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor |
Seattle-First National Bank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wells Fargo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dexter Horton Description of subject: Dexter Horton was a pioneering Seattle banker best known for founding the city's first successful bank, which later evolved into part of Wells Fargo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park