Arthur Sewall
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Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arthur Sewall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8193141 — 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: Arthur Sewall Context triple: [United States presidential election, 1896, DemocraticRunningMate, Arthur Sewall]
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A.
Stephen Sewall
Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
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B.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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C.
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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D.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
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E.
Eleazar Mather
Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
- 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: Arthur Sewall Target entity description: Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
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A.
Stephen Sewall
Stephen Sewall was an 18th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.
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B.
Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall was a colonial New England judge and diarist best known for his role in the Salem witch trials and later public repentance for that involvement.
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C.
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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D.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather was a prominent late 17th-century New England Puritan minister and prolific writer whose religious zeal and influence made him a central and controversial figure in early American history.
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E.
Eleazar Mather
Eleazar Mather was a 17th-century Puritan minister in New England and the older brother of prominent clergyman Increase Mather.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ shipbuilder ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Maple Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessLocation | Bath, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | 1896 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1835-11-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1900-09-05 ⓘ |
| employer | Arthur Sewall & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sewall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | William D. Sewall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
banking
ⓘ
rail transport ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| mother | Rachel Trufant Trufant Sewall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1896 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1896 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
politician ⓘ shipbuilder ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bath, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bath, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the Maine House of Representatives
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president of the Bath National Bank ⓘ president of the Maine Central Railroad ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| representedIn | Maine House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Bath, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningMateOf | William Jennings Bryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Emma Duncan Crooker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Arthur Sewall Description of subject: Arthur Sewall was an American shipbuilder, businessman, and politician from Maine who is best known for serving as William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic vice-presidential running mate in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.