James Sullivan
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James Sullivan was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Sullivan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9076588 — 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 Sullivan Context triple: [Somersworth, New Hampshire, hasNotablePerson, James Sullivan]
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A.
James Edward Sullivan
James Edward Sullivan was an influential early 20th-century American sports official and administrator who helped shape amateur athletics in the United States.
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B.
James Patrick Sullivan
James Patrick Sullivan is the large blue-furred, horned monster known as "Sulley," one of the main characters in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc."
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C.
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan, better known as Sky Captain, is the heroic, ace pilot protagonist who leads daring aerial missions to protect the world in the retro-futuristic film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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D.
George Sullivan
George Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk.
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E.
Joseph Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when their ship, the USS Juneau, was sunk in 1942.
- 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 Sullivan Target entity description: James Sullivan was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 19th century.
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A.
James Edward Sullivan
James Edward Sullivan was an influential early 20th-century American sports official and administrator who helped shape amateur athletics in the United States.
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B.
James Patrick Sullivan
James Patrick Sullivan is the large blue-furred, horned monster known as "Sulley," one of the main characters in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc."
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C.
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan
Joseph "Joe" Sullivan, better known as Sky Captain, is the heroic, ace pilot protagonist who leads daring aerial missions to protect the world in the retro-futuristic film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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D.
George Sullivan
George Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk.
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E.
Joseph Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when their ship, the USS Juneau, was sunk in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of Massachusetts
ⓘ
human ⓘ jurist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Granary Burying Ground, Boston
ⓘ
linked to:
Granary Burying Ground
|
| child |
John Langdon Sullivan
ⓘ
William Sullivan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Massachusetts (Province/State)
ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1744-04-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1808-12-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | self-taught in law ⓘ |
| endTime (Governor of Massachusetts) | 1808 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
legal history ⓘ state governance ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic-Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Advocated for Maine’s separation from Massachusetts
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Helped found the Massachusetts Historical Society ⓘ |
| notableRole | early leader in the Democratic-Republican Party in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| notableWork |
History of the District of Maine
ⓘ
linked to:
Maine District of Massachusetts
|
| occupation |
jurist
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary War (civil and political roles)
ⓘ
linked to:
American Revolutionary War
|
| placeOfBirth |
Berwick, Province of Massachusetts Bay
ⓘ
linked to:
Berwick, Massachusetts Bay Colony
|
| placeOfDeath | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of Massachusetts
ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts Attorney General
Governor of Massachusetts ⓘ Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ⓘ |
| precededBy | Caleb Strong ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic (heritage) / likely Protestant New England milieu ⓘ |
| residence |
Berwick, Maine
ⓘ
Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Hannah Sullivan ⓘ |
| startTime (Governor of Massachusetts) | 1807 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Christopher Gore ⓘ |
| workLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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 Sullivan Description of subject: James Sullivan was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as Governor of Massachusetts in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.