Thomas Hubbard (diplomat)
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Thomas Hubbard is an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and later to South Korea in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Hubbard (diplomat) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9524346 — 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: Thomas Hubbard (diplomat) Context triple: [Hubbard, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Hubbard (diplomat)]
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A.
Thomas S. Jesup
Thomas S. Jesup was a long-serving U.S. Army officer and Quartermaster General noted for his prominent leadership in multiple early 19th-century American conflicts, including the Seminole Wars.
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B.
Robert Lansing
Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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C.
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
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D.
Frederick J. DeLongchamps
Frederick J. DeLongchamps was a prominent early 20th-century American architect known especially for his civic and public buildings in Nevada.
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E.
Frederick P. Cabot
Frederick P. Cabot was an American jurist and educator known for his influential work in reforming the Boston juvenile court system.
- 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: Thomas Hubbard (diplomat) Target entity description: Thomas Hubbard is an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and later to South Korea in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
Thomas S. Jesup
Thomas S. Jesup was a long-serving U.S. Army officer and Quartermaster General noted for his prominent leadership in multiple early 19th-century American conflicts, including the Seminole Wars.
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B.
Robert Lansing
Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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C.
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
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D.
Frederick J. DeLongchamps
Frederick J. DeLongchamps was a prominent early 20th-century American architect known especially for his civic and public buildings in Nevada.
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E.
Frederick P. Cabot
Frederick P. Cabot was an American jurist and educator known for his influential work in reforming the Boston juvenile court system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American diplomat
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of State ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
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international relations ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as U.S. Ambassador to South Korea in the early 2000s
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serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines in the late 1990s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
U.S. foreign relations with South Korea
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U.S. foreign relations with the Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
ambassador
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diplomat ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Ambassador to South Korea
NERFINISHED
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United States Ambassador to the Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas Hubbard (diplomat) Description of subject: Thomas Hubbard is an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and later to South Korea in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.