Asael Smith
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Asael Smith was an early American settler and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the grandfather of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Asael Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9231463 — 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: Asael Smith Context triple: [Joseph Smith Sr., father, Asael Smith]
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A.
Nathaniel Smith
Nathaniel Smith is one of the sons of acclaimed British actress Dame Maggie Smith.
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B.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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C.
Isaiah Butler
Isaiah Butler is the central protagonist of the crime drama series "Seven Seconds," around whom the show's exploration of justice, race, and police corruption revolves.
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D.
Jeremiah Biggs
Jeremiah Biggs is the son of Reverend Henry Biggs, a clergyman known in his community for his religious leadership.
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E.
Samuel Black
Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
- 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: Asael Smith Target entity description: Asael Smith was an early American settler and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the grandfather of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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A.
Nathaniel Smith
Nathaniel Smith is one of the sons of acclaimed British actress Dame Maggie Smith.
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B.
Jeremiah Elfreth
Jeremiah Elfreth was an 18th-century Philadelphia blacksmith and property owner whose name was given to the historic residential street now known as Elfreth's Alley.
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C.
Isaiah Butler
Isaiah Butler is the central protagonist of the crime drama series "Seven Seconds," around whom the show's exploration of justice, race, and police corruption revolves.
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D.
Jeremiah Biggs
Jeremiah Biggs is the son of Reverend Henry Biggs, a clergyman known in his community for his religious leadership.
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E.
Samuel Black
Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War veteran
ⓘ
early American settler ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Asael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Joseph Smith Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Joseph Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joseph Smith Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ members of the Smith family associated with the Latter Day Saint movement ⓘ |
| hasGrandchild | Joseph Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Revolutionary era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the grandfather of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Joseph Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joseph Smith Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | ancestor of the founding family of the Latter Day Saint movement ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
New England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Asael Smith Description of subject: Asael Smith was an early American settler and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the grandfather of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.