John Duer
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John Duer was a 19th-century American jurist who served as a judge of the New York Superior Court and was known for his influential legal writings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Duer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8007046 — 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 Duer Context triple: [William Duer, child, John Duer]
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A.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
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B.
Willam Christensen
Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
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C.
William Duer
William Duer was an American Revolutionary-era politician, land speculator, and financier who served in the Continental Congress and later became a key but ultimately disgraced figure in early U.S. federal finance.
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D.
Joseph Flummerfelt
Joseph Flummerfelt was an acclaimed American choral conductor and educator, best known for his long association with the Westminster Choir and major orchestras and festivals around the world.
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E.
John Dinkeloo
John Dinkeloo was an American architect best known for his partnership with Eero Saarinen and later leadership of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, contributing to numerous influential modernist buildings.
- 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 Duer Target entity description: John Duer was a 19th-century American jurist who served as a judge of the New York Superior Court and was known for his influential legal writings.
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A.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
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B.
Willam Christensen
Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
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C.
William Duer
William Duer was an American Revolutionary-era politician, land speculator, and financier who served in the Continental Congress and later became a key but ultimately disgraced figure in early U.S. federal finance.
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D.
Joseph Flummerfelt
Joseph Flummerfelt was an acclaimed American choral conductor and educator, best known for his long association with the Westminster Choir and major orchestras and festivals around the world.
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E.
John Dinkeloo
John Dinkeloo was an American architect best known for his partnership with Eero Saarinen and later leadership of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, contributing to numerous influential modernist buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ legal writer ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
New York
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United States of America ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American legal doctrine
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jurisprudence ⓘ law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential legal writings
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service on the New York Superior Court ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York bar ⓘ |
| notableWork |
legal writings
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treatises on American law ⓘ writings on constitutional law ⓘ writings on insurance law ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the City of New York
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Judge of the New York Superior Court ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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New York State ⓘ |
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 Duer Description of subject: John Duer was a 19th-century American jurist who served as a judge of the New York Superior Court and was known for his influential legal writings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.