Elias Dayton
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Elias Dayton was an American Revolutionary War officer and Continental Army colonel from New Jersey who played a key leadership role in the war’s northern theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elias Dayton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8715400 — 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: Elias Dayton Context triple: [Battle of Springfield (1780), commander, Elias Dayton]
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A.
Eliab Harvey
Eliab Harvey was an English naval officer and politician best known for commanding HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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B.
Samuel Franklin
Samuel Franklin was a lesser-known sibling in the large Franklin family that produced the famed American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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C.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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E.
Elijah Warner
Elijah Warner is one of the children of Brenda Warner, the wife of former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner.
- 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: Elias Dayton Target entity description: Elias Dayton was an American Revolutionary War officer and Continental Army colonel from New Jersey who played a key leadership role in the war’s northern theater.
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A.
Eliab Harvey
Eliab Harvey was an English naval officer and politician best known for commanding HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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B.
Samuel Franklin
Samuel Franklin was a lesser-known sibling in the large Franklin family that produced the famed American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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C.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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E.
Elijah Warner
Elijah Warner is one of the children of Brenda Warner, the wife of former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Dayton ⓘ |
| givenName | Elias ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Continental Army colonel from New Jersey
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leader in the northern theater of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership in the northern theater of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
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| residence |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
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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: Elias Dayton Description of subject: Elias Dayton was an American Revolutionary War officer and Continental Army colonel from New Jersey who played a key leadership role in the war’s northern theater.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.