Thomas Hartley Crawford
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Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas H. Crawford | 1 |
| Thomas Hartley Crawford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7471878 — 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: Thomas Hartley Crawford Context triple: [Crawford, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Hartley Crawford]
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A.
Thomas Crawford
Thomas Crawford was a 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for major public works in Washington, D.C., including the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome.
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B.
George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough was a pioneering 19th-century English geologist and cartographer known for helping establish geology as a scientific discipline in Britain.
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C.
Francis Davis Millet
Francis Davis Millet was an American painter, sculptor, and writer known for his prominent role in late 19th-century public art and his tragic death in the sinking of the Titanic.
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D.
William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount was a 19th-century American painter best known for his genre scenes depicting everyday rural life and social themes.
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E.
Augustus Meaher
Augustus Meaher was a 19th-century Alabama landowner and timber businessman historically associated with the last known illegal slave ship, the Clotilda, and the land that later became Meaher State Park.
- 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: Thomas Hartley Crawford Target entity description: Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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A.
Thomas Crawford
Thomas Crawford was a 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for major public works in Washington, D.C., including the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome.
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B.
George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough was a pioneering 19th-century English geologist and cartographer known for helping establish geology as a scientific discipline in Britain.
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C.
Francis Davis Millet
Francis Davis Millet was an American painter, sculptor, and writer known for his prominent role in late 19th-century public art and his tragic death in the sinking of the Titanic.
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D.
William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount was a 19th-century American painter best known for his genre scenes depicting everyday rural life and social themes.
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E.
Augustus Meaher
Augustus Meaher was a 19th-century Alabama landowner and timber businessman historically associated with the last known illegal slave ship, the Clotilda, and the land that later became Meaher State Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ judge ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Crawford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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politics ⓘ |
| genre | 19th-century American politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRole |
19th-century Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania in the 19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | oversight of United States Indian affairs as Commissioner of Indian Affairs ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Representative from Pennsylvania ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Representative
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| residence |
Pennsylvania
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs |
Thomas H. Crawford
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linked to:
Thomas Hartley Crawford
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| workLocation |
Pennsylvania
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Thomas Hartley Crawford Description of subject: Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Hartley Crawford