William P. Fessenden
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William P. Fessenden was a prominent 19th-century American statesman who served as a U.S. senator from Maine and briefly as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William P. Fessenden canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6572676 — 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.
Target entity: William P. Fessenden Context triple: [Albany Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William P. Fessenden]
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Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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B.
Edward Lippincott Tilton
Edward Lippincott Tilton was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century public and institutional buildings, particularly libraries and civic structures.
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C.
Thomas Seward
Thomas Seward was an English clergyman and minor literary figure of the 18th century, best known today as the father of poet Anna Seward.
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D.
John T. Trowbridge
John T. Trowbridge was a 19th-century American author and poet known for his popular juvenile fiction, essays, and antislavery writings.
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E.
Thomas S. Tait
Thomas S. Tait was a prominent Scottish modernist architect known for major public and commercial buildings in the early 20th century, including landmark works in Edinburgh and London.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: William P. Fessenden Target entity description: William P. Fessenden was a prominent 19th-century American statesman who served as a U.S. senator from Maine and briefly as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
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A.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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B.
Edward Lippincott Tilton
Edward Lippincott Tilton was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century public and institutional buildings, particularly libraries and civic structures.
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C.
Thomas Seward
Thomas Seward was an English clergyman and minor literary figure of the 18th century, best known today as the father of poet Anna Seward.
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D.
John T. Trowbridge
John T. Trowbridge was a 19th-century American author and poet known for his popular juvenile fiction, essays, and antislavery writings.
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E.
Thomas S. Tait
Thomas S. Tait was a prominent Scottish modernist architect known for major public and commercial buildings in the early 20th century, including landmark works in Edinburgh and London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ United States senator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | liver disease ⓘ |
| child |
James Deering Fessenden
NERFINISHED
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Samuel F. Fessenden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1806-10-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1869-09-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Bowdoin College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
second service in U.S. Senate: 1869
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service in U.S. Senate: 1864 ⓘ term as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury: 1865-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Fessenden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Samuel Fessenden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| knownFor |
managing Union war finances during the American Civil War
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opposition to some Radical Republican Reconstruction measures ⓘ service on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States House of Representatives
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United States Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
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Whig Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Pitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership on Civil War finance legislation
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role in drafting Reconstruction policies ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boscawen, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Senate Finance Committee
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Chairman of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction ⓘ Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Senator from Maine ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| replaced | Salmon P. Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime |
second service in U.S. Senate: 1865
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service in U.S. Senate: 1854 ⓘ term as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury: 1864-07 ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Hugh McCulloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: William P. Fessenden Description of subject: William P. Fessenden was a prominent 19th-century American statesman who served as a U.S. senator from Maine and briefly as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
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