Foster McGowan Voorhees
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Foster McGowan Voorhees was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Foster McGowan Voorhees canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8868297 — 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: Foster McGowan Voorhees Context triple: [Voorhees Township, namedFor, Foster McGowan Voorhees]
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A.
William Wasbrough Foster
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
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B.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
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C.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
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D.
John Adams Morgan
John Adams Morgan is an American financier and Olympic sailing medalist, known as a descendant of the prominent Morgan banking family.
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E.
Charles Terry Schermerhorn
Charles Terry Schermerhorn is the father of American actress Alison Brie.
- 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: Foster McGowan Voorhees Target entity description: Foster McGowan Voorhees was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.
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A.
William Wasbrough Foster
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
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B.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
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C.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
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D.
John Adams Morgan
John Adams Morgan is an American financier and Olympic sailing medalist, known as a descendant of the prominent Morgan banking family.
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E.
Charles Terry Schermerhorn
Charles Terry Schermerhorn is the father of American actress Alison Brie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Foster McGowan Voorhees Description of subject: Foster McGowan Voorhees was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.