John Cleves Symmes
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John Cleves Symmes was an American Revolutionary War officer, jurist, and land speculator best known for his role in settling the Northwest Territory and for being the father-in-law of President William Henry Harrison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Cleves Symmes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6997312 — 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 Cleves Symmes Context triple: [Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, father, John Cleves Symmes]
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A.
Joseph Ellicott
Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
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B.
William Edmond Logan
William Edmond Logan was a 19th-century Canadian geologist renowned for pioneering geological mapping in Canada and leading the early development of the country’s geological sciences.
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C.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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D.
Melancton Smith
Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
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E.
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-American surveyor and scientist who became the first superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, laying the foundations for modern American coastal mapping and geodesy.
- 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 Cleves Symmes Target entity description: John Cleves Symmes was an American Revolutionary War officer, jurist, and land speculator best known for his role in settling the Northwest Territory and for being the father-in-law of President William Henry Harrison.
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A.
Joseph Ellicott
Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
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B.
William Edmond Logan
William Edmond Logan was a 19th-century Canadian geologist renowned for pioneering geological mapping in Canada and leading the early development of the country’s geological sciences.
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C.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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D.
Melancton Smith
Melancton Smith was an American lawyer and politician from New York who became a leading voice against ratification of the U.S. Constitution, arguing for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
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E.
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-American surveyor and scientist who became the first superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, laying the foundations for modern American coastal mapping and geodesy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War officer
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human ⓘ jurist ⓘ land speculator ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Spring Grove Cemetery (historically associated area near Cincinnati) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Anna Tuthill Symmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1742-07-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1814-02-26 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Symmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherInLawOf | William Henry Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
large land purchase in the Northwest Territory
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role in settling the Northwest Territory ⓘ |
| memberOf | Continental Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableEvent | negotiation of land purchase along the Ohio River ⓘ |
| notableWork | Symmes Purchase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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land speculator ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Riverhead, Province of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cincinnati, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
judge of the New Jersey Supreme Court
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judge of the Northwest Territory ⓘ member of the Continental Congress ⓘ |
| residence |
Cincinnati, Ohio
NERFINISHED
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New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Anna Tuthill 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: John Cleves Symmes Description of subject: John Cleves Symmes was an American Revolutionary War officer, jurist, and land speculator best known for his role in settling the Northwest Territory and for being the father-in-law of President William Henry Harrison.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.