James Montgomery Flagg
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James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator best known for creating the iconic World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Montgomery Flagg canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17390 — 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: James Montgomery Flagg Context triple: [Uncle Sam, depictedBy, James Montgomery Flagg]
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A.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is the iconic, bearded figure in a star-spangled top hat who personifies the United States in political cartoons, posters, and popular culture.
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Alfred Loomis
Alfred Loomis was an American lawyer, financier, and physicist who played a pivotal role in organizing and funding U.S. scientific research during World War II, particularly in radar development.
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D.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Pierre Charles L’Enfant was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for creating the original plan for the city of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
- 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: James Montgomery Flagg Target entity description: James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator best known for creating the iconic World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army."
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A.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is the iconic, bearded figure in a star-spangled top hat who personifies the United States in political cartoons, posters, and popular culture.
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Alfred Loomis
Alfred Loomis was an American lawyer, financier, and physicist who played a pivotal role in organizing and funding U.S. scientific research during World War II, particularly in radar development.
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D.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Pierre Charles L’Enfant was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for creating the original plan for the city of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1877-06-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| created | I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1960-05-27 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicted | Uncle Sam ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Art Students League of New York
ⓘ
National Academy of Design ⓘ |
| employer |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. government
|
| familyName | Flagg ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
illustration
ⓘ
painting ⓘ poster art ⓘ |
| genre |
political poster
ⓘ
propaganda poster ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Library of Congress
ⓘ
Smithsonian Institution ⓘ |
| influencedBy | American magazine illustration ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement | American illustration ⓘ |
| name | James Montgomery Flagg self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
ⓘ
surface form:
World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster
popularizing the modern image of Uncle Sam ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
ⓘ
surface form:
I Want YOU for U.S. Army
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster ⓘ
surface form:
Uncle Sam Wants You recruitment poster
posters for World War I ⓘ posters for World War II ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
ⓘ
illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ poster artist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedOwnFaceAsModelFor | Uncle Sam ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: James Montgomery Flagg Description of subject: James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator best known for creating the iconic World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.