Reverend Jonas Clarke
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Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reverend Jonas Clarke canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T628407 — 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: Reverend Jonas Clarke Context triple: [Hancock-Clarke House, namedAfter, Reverend Jonas Clarke]
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A.
Reverend Henry Biggs
Reverend Henry Biggs is the kind-hearted but overworked pastor and central figure in the film "The Preacher's Wife," whose faith and family life are tested until an angel intervenes to help him.
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B.
Samuel Church
Samuel Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," recognized for his significance among people with that family name.
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C.
William Conant Church
William Conant Church was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and co-founder of the National Rifle Association.
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D.
Josiah Winslow
Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- 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: Reverend Jonas Clarke Target entity description: Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Reverend Henry Biggs
Reverend Henry Biggs is the kind-hearted but overworked pastor and central figure in the film "The Preacher's Wife," whose faith and family life are tested until an angel intervenes to help him.
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B.
Samuel Church
Samuel Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," recognized for his significance among people with that family name.
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C.
William Conant Church
William Conant Church was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and co-founder of the National Rifle Association.
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D.
Josiah Winslow
Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Patriot
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Christian minister ⓘ Congregational minister ⓘ person ⓘ |
| advocated |
colonial rights
ⓘ
resistance to British policies ⓘ |
| basedInChurch | Lexington Congregational church ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| clergyType | Congregational clergy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | British America ⓘ |
| familyName | Clarke ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonas ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | New England ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Reverend ⓘ |
| knownAs | Reverend Jonas Clarke ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
political leadership in Lexington, Massachusetts
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role in events leading to the American Revolutionary War ⓘ support for American independence ⓘ |
| occupation |
Congregational minister
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clergyman ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Lexington, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
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Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Patriot cause ⓘ |
| religion |
Congregationalism
ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence | Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| roleIn |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
events leading up to the Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ |
| supported |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolution
|
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: Reverend Jonas Clarke Description of subject: Reverend Jonas Clarke was an 18th-century Congregational minister in Lexington, Massachusetts, known for his influential role in the events leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jonas Clarke