Hiram Powers
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Hiram Powers was a prominent 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for his marble statue "The Greek Slave."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiram Powers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8888827 — 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: Hiram Powers Context triple: [Powers, hasNotableBearer, Hiram Powers]
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A.
George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough was a pioneering 19th-century English geologist and cartographer known for helping establish geology as a scientific discipline in Britain.
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B.
Horatio Greenough
Horatio Greenough was a 19th-century American sculptor best known for his neoclassical works and early contributions to public art in the United States.
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C.
Thomas Hartley Crawford
Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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D.
Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Cyrus Edwin Dallin was an American sculptor best known for his monumental public works depicting Native American subjects and historical figures.
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E.
Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French was a prominent American sculptor best known for creating the monumental seated statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial.
- 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: Hiram Powers Target entity description: Hiram Powers was a prominent 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for his marble statue "The Greek Slave."
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A.
George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough was a pioneering 19th-century English geologist and cartographer known for helping establish geology as a scientific discipline in Britain.
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B.
Horatio Greenough
Horatio Greenough was a 19th-century American sculptor best known for his neoclassical works and early contributions to public art in the United States.
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C.
Thomas Hartley Crawford
Thomas Hartley Crawford was a 19th-century American politician and judge who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania and later as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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D.
Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Cyrus Edwin Dallin was an American sculptor best known for his monumental public works depicting Native American subjects and historical figures.
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E.
Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French was a prominent American sculptor best known for creating the monumental seated statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Hiram Powers Description of subject: Hiram Powers was a prominent 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for his marble statue "The Greek Slave."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.