Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago)
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The Statue of John Peter Altgeld in Chicago is a bronze monument honoring the reformist Illinois governor, created by prominent American sculptor Daniel Chester French and located in Lincoln Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T628086 — 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: Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago) Context triple: [Daniel Chester French, notableWork, Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago)]
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A.
Statue of the Republic (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago)
The Statue of the Republic is a monumental gilded sculpture created for Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, symbolizing American democracy and national pride.
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B.
Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant (Philadelphia)
The Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia is a prominent outdoor equestrian monument honoring the Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, created by renowned American sculptor Daniel Chester French.
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C.
Billiken statue
The Billiken statue is a charm-like figure known as the “god of things as they ought to be,” popular in Osaka as a symbol of good luck whose feet visitors rub for fortune.
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D.
Statue of Wendell Phillips (Boston)
The Statue of Wendell Phillips in Boston is a bronze monument by sculptor Daniel Chester French honoring the prominent 19th-century abolitionist and orator.
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E.
Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument
The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument is a historic memorial in Chicago honoring the labor activists executed after the 1886 Haymarket affair and is a key symbol of the international workers’ rights movement.
- 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: Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago) Target entity description: The Statue of John Peter Altgeld in Chicago is a bronze monument honoring the reformist Illinois governor, created by prominent American sculptor Daniel Chester French and located in Lincoln Park.
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A.
Statue of the Republic (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago)
The Statue of the Republic is a monumental gilded sculpture created for Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, symbolizing American democracy and national pride.
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B.
Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant (Philadelphia)
The Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia is a prominent outdoor equestrian monument honoring the Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, created by renowned American sculptor Daniel Chester French.
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C.
Billiken statue
The Billiken statue is a charm-like figure known as the “god of things as they ought to be,” popular in Osaka as a symbol of good luck whose feet visitors rub for fortune.
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D.
Statue of Wendell Phillips (Boston)
The Statue of Wendell Phillips in Boston is a bronze monument by sculptor Daniel Chester French honoring the prominent 19th-century abolitionist and orator.
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E.
Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument
The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument is a historic memorial in Chicago honoring the labor activists executed after the 1886 Haymarket affair and is a key symbol of the international workers’ rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bronze sculpture
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monument ⓘ outdoor sculpture ⓘ public art ⓘ |
| artistNationality | American ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Daniel Chester French ⓘ |
| depicts | John Peter Altgeld ⓘ |
| depictsOccupation | Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| depictsPersonRole | reformist politician ⓘ |
| genre | commemorative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasType | governor statue ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Chicago public art ⓘ |
| honors | John Peter Altgeld ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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surface form:
Chicago
Illinois ⓘ Lincoln Park ⓘ |
| locatedInPark | Lincoln Park ⓘ |
| material | bronze ⓘ |
| municipality |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
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| namedAfter | John Peter Altgeld ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| sculptor | Daniel Chester French ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subjectOfWork | John Peter Altgeld ⓘ |
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: Statue of John Peter Altgeld (Chicago) Description of subject: The Statue of John Peter Altgeld in Chicago is a bronze monument honoring the reformist Illinois governor, created by prominent American sculptor Daniel Chester French and located in Lincoln Park.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.