Jerome C. Davis
E676960
Jerome C. Davis was a 19th-century rancher and landowner whose holdings formed the basis of the area that later became the city of Davis, California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerome C. Davis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6994628 — 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: Jerome C. Davis Context triple: [Davis, California, namedAfter, Jerome C. Davis]
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A.
James A. G. Davis
James A. G. Davis was a notable individual interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his significance in the region’s historical or civic life.
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B.
George P. Davis
George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
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C.
James J. Davis
James J. Davis was a Welsh-born American labor leader and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Labor in the early 20th century before becoming a long-time U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
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D.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
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E.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
- 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: Jerome C. Davis Target entity description: Jerome C. Davis was a 19th-century rancher and landowner whose holdings formed the basis of the area that later became the city of Davis, California.
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A.
James A. G. Davis
James A. G. Davis was a notable individual interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his significance in the region’s historical or civic life.
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B.
George P. Davis
George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
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C.
James J. Davis
James J. Davis was a Welsh-born American labor leader and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Labor in the early 20th century before becoming a long-time U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
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D.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
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E.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landowner
ⓘ
person ⓘ rancher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
California
NERFINISHED
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Davis, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasRole |
agricultural land developer
ⓘ
ranch operator ⓘ |
| influenced | formation of the area that became Davis, California ⓘ |
| knownFor |
landownership
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owning land that later became Davis, California ⓘ ranching ⓘ |
| landHoldingsFormedBasisOf | city of Davis, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLocationOfActivity |
Yolo County, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near present-day Davis, California ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
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rancher ⓘ |
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: Jerome C. Davis Description of subject: Jerome C. Davis was a 19th-century rancher and landowner whose holdings formed the basis of the area that later became the city of Davis, California.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.