Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester
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The Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester was the longtime residence and social hub of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his family, serving as a key site for antislavery organizing and Black community life in 19th-century New York.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglass family home on South Avenue, Rochester | 1 |
| Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6994249 — 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: Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester Context triple: [Rosetta Douglass, associatedWith, Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester]
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Cedar Hill (Frederick Douglass home)
Cedar Hill is the historic Washington, D.C. home of abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass, preserved as a museum and national historic site.
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B.
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is a preserved historic home and museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the life, legacy, and residence of abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass.
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C.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site is a museum and heritage complex in Ontario, Canada, commemorating the life of Reverend Josiah Henson and the history of the Underground Railroad and Black settlement in the region.
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D.
Johnson House Historic Site
Johnson House Historic Site is a preserved 18th-century home in Germantown, Philadelphia, renowned for its role as a station on the Underground Railroad and its interpretation of African American history and abolitionism.
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E.
W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite
The W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite is a historic property in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating the early life and legacy of the influential African American scholar, civil rights activist, and writer W.E.B. Du Bois.
- 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: Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester Target entity description: The Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester was the longtime residence and social hub of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his family, serving as a key site for antislavery organizing and Black community life in 19th-century New York.
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A.
Cedar Hill (Frederick Douglass home)
Cedar Hill is the historic Washington, D.C. home of abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass, preserved as a museum and national historic site.
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B.
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is a preserved historic home and museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the life, legacy, and residence of abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass.
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C.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site is a museum and heritage complex in Ontario, Canada, commemorating the life of Reverend Josiah Henson and the history of the Underground Railroad and Black settlement in the region.
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D.
Johnson House Historic Site
Johnson House Historic Site is a preserved 18th-century home in Germantown, Philadelphia, renowned for its role as a station on the Underground Railroad and its interpretation of African American history and abolitionism.
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E.
W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite
The W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite is a historic property in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating the early life and legacy of the influential African American scholar, civil rights activist, and writer W.E.B. Du Bois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abolitionist site
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former residence ⓘ historic house ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommunity | African American community in Rochester ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup |
African Americans
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| associatedWithMovement |
abolitionism
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antislavery movement in the United States ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Anna Murray Douglass
ⓘ
Frederick Douglass ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalContext |
19th-century African American history
ⓘ
United States antislavery history ⓘ |
| function |
center of Black community life
ⓘ
family residence ⓘ site of antislavery organizing ⓘ social hub ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimaryOccupants | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| notableResident |
Anna Murray Douglass
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Frederick Douglass ⓘ |
| primaryResident |
Anna Murray Douglass
ⓘ
Frederick Douglass ⓘ |
| significance |
important center of Black social and political life in Rochester
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key site for antislavery organizing in New York ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| usedBy | Douglass family ⓘ |
| usedFor |
meetings related to abolition
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planning antislavery activities ⓘ social gatherings of reformers ⓘ |
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: Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester Description of subject: The Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester was the longtime residence and social hub of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his family, serving as a key site for antislavery organizing and Black community life in 19th-century New York.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Frederick Douglass family home in Rochester