James A. Beaver
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James A. Beaver was a 19th-century American politician and Civil War general who served as governor of Pennsylvania.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. Beaver canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8417290 — 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 A. Beaver Context triple: [Beaver Stadium, namedAfter, James A. Beaver]
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A.
Francis B. Burch
Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Edward B. Burling
Edward B. Burling was an American lawyer and prominent Washington, D.C. legal figure best known as a co-founder of the influential law firm Covington & Burling.
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C.
Henry Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
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D.
Lyman G. Bloomingdale
Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
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E.
George T. Dunlap
George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
- 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 A. Beaver Target entity description: James A. Beaver was a 19th-century American politician and Civil War general who served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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A.
Francis B. Burch
Francis B. Burch was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Maryland in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Edward B. Burling
Edward B. Burling was an American lawyer and prominent Washington, D.C. legal figure best known as a co-founder of the influential law firm Covington & Burling.
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C.
Henry Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
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D.
Lyman G. Bloomingdale
Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
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E.
George T. Dunlap
George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1837-10-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1914-01-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Jefferson College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington & Jefferson College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electedIn | 1886 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Beaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | Esq. ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | development of Pennsylvania State University governance ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Addams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Addams Beaver Field (Beaver Stadium predecessor) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as a Union general in the American Civil War
ⓘ
serving as governor of Pennsylvania in the late 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Millerstown, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Perry County, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Centre County, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ⓘ President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania State Senate ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| residence | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1891-01-20 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1887-01-18 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 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: James A. Beaver Description of subject: James A. Beaver was a 19th-century American politician and Civil War general who served as governor of Pennsylvania.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.