Solomon Mack
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Solomon Mack was an American farmer and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the father of Lucy Mack Smith and grandfather of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Solomon Mack canonical | 2 |
| Solomon Mack Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9231518 — 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: Solomon Mack Context triple: [Lucy Mack Smith, parent, Solomon Mack]
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A.
Maynard Solomon
Maynard Solomon was an American record producer, musicologist, and co-founder of Vanguard Records, known for his influential work in classical, folk, and protest music.
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B.
Moses Wisner
Moses Wisner was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 12th governor of Michigan in the mid-19th century and was a prominent figure in the early Republican Party.
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C.
Gilbert Moses
Gilbert Moses was an American theater and television director known for his work in socially conscious drama and for co-founding the Free Southern Theater during the civil rights era.
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D.
Arthur Seid
Arthur Seid is a film editor known for his work on the classic 1948 crime drama "Force of Evil."
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E.
La Monte Young
La Monte Young is an American composer and musician regarded as a pioneer of minimal music and drone-based composition, known for his radically sustained tones and conceptual approach to sound and time.
- 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: Solomon Mack Target entity description: Solomon Mack was an American farmer and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the father of Lucy Mack Smith and grandfather of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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A.
Maynard Solomon
Maynard Solomon was an American record producer, musicologist, and co-founder of Vanguard Records, known for his influential work in classical, folk, and protest music.
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B.
Moses Wisner
Moses Wisner was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 12th governor of Michigan in the mid-19th century and was a prominent figure in the early Republican Party.
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C.
Gilbert Moses
Gilbert Moses was an American theater and television director known for his work in socially conscious drama and for co-founding the Free Southern Theater during the civil rights era.
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D.
Arthur Seid
Arthur Seid is a film editor known for his work on the classic 1948 crime drama "Force of Evil."
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E.
La Monte Young
La Monte Young is an American composer and musician regarded as a pioneer of minimal music and drone-based composition, known for his radically sustained tones and conceptual approach to sound and time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War veteran
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | Lucy Mack Smith ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Mack ⓘ |
| givenName | Solomon ⓘ |
| grandparentOf | Joseph Smith ⓘ |
| hasAutobiography | A Narrative of the Life of Solomon Mack ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of Lucy Mack Smith
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being the grandfather of Joseph Smith ⓘ service in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Narrative of the Life of Solomon Mack ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
New England
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New Hampshire ⓘ Vermont ⓘ |
| relative |
Joseph Smith
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linked to:
Joseph Smith Sr.
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| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lydia Gates Mack ⓘ |
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: Solomon Mack Description of subject: Solomon Mack was an American farmer and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the father of Lucy Mack Smith and grandfather of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Solomon Mack