Joseph F. Smith
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Joseph F. Smith was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a prominent religious leader in early Mormon history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph F. Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9400109 — 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: Joseph F. Smith Context triple: [Hyrum Smith, child, Joseph F. Smith]
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A.
Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow was the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known for stabilizing the church’s finances and promoting the principle of tithing at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff was a prominent early Latter-day Saint apostle and fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known for leading the church through the transition away from plural marriage and helping establish it in the American West.
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C.
George Albert Smith
George Albert Smith was a pioneering British filmmaker and early cinema innovator known for his contributions to narrative film techniques and special effects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Heber J. Grant
Heber J. Grant was the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known for modernizing church administration and expanding its global reach.
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E.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young was a 19th-century American religious leader who led the Latter-day Saints to the American West and served as the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 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: Joseph F. Smith Target entity description: Joseph F. Smith was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a prominent religious leader in early Mormon history.
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A.
Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow was the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known for stabilizing the church’s finances and promoting the principle of tithing at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff was a prominent early Latter-day Saint apostle and fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known for leading the church through the transition away from plural marriage and helping establish it in the American West.
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C.
George Albert Smith
George Albert Smith was a pioneering British filmmaker and early cinema innovator known for his contributions to narrative film techniques and special effects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Heber J. Grant
Heber J. Grant was the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known for modernizing church administration and expanding its global reach.
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E.
Brigham Young
Brigham Young was a 19th-century American religious leader who led the Latter-day Saints to the American West and served as the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latter Day Saint
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human ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| affiliation |
First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1838-11-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Far West, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
David Smith
NERFINISHED
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Hyrum Mack Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ John Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Fielding Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 1918-11-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1918-11-19 ⓘ |
| era | Early and early-20th-century Mormon history ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Issuing the 1904 Second Manifesto against plural marriage
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Leading the LDS Church during the early 20th century ⓘ Promoting family history and genealogy in the LDS Church ⓘ Strengthening LDS Church administration and organization ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hawaiian ⓘ |
| mission |
LDS missionary in the British Isles
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LDS missionary in the Hawaiian Islands ⓘ LDS missionary in the United States ⓘ |
| name | Joseph F. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Doctrine and Covenants Section 138 (Vision of the Redemption of the Dead) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| office | Sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ |
| parent |
Hyrum Smith
NERFINISHED
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Mary Fielding Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ⓘ President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Lorenzo Snow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alice Ann Kimball Smith
NERFINISHED
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Edna Lambson Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Julina Lambson Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Levira Annette Clark Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner (sealed) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Taylor Schwartz Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Ellen Richards Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1901-10-17 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Heber J. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncle | Joseph Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Joseph F. Smith Description of subject: Joseph F. Smith was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a prominent religious leader in early Mormon history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.