Edward L. Hedden
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Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward L. Hedden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4408169 — 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: Edward L. Hedden Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Edward L. Hedden]
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Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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B.
William S. Darling
William S. Darling was an Academy Award–winning Hungarian-American art director known for his influential production design work in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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D.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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E.
Charles D. Norton
Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
- 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: Edward L. Hedden Target entity description: Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
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A.
Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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B.
William S. Darling
William S. Darling was an Academy Award–winning Hungarian-American art director known for his influential production design work in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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D.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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E.
Charles D. Norton
Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American public official
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United States Supreme Court case ⓘ customs official ⓘ government office ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Port of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concerns | definition of fruit versus vegetable for tariff purposes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| employer |
United States Customs Service
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| fieldOfWork |
customs administration
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tariff enforcement ⓘ |
| legalSubject | tariff classification of tomatoes ⓘ |
| namedAsPartyIn | Nix v. Hedden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden ⓘ |
| occupation |
customs collector
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government official ⓘ |
| participantIn | Nix v. Hedden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Collector of the Port of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | Edward L. Hedden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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Port of New York 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: Edward L. Hedden Description of subject: Edward L. Hedden was a 19th-century American customs official best known for serving as Collector of the Port of New York and for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.