Henry Wilson
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Henry Wilson was an American politician and abolitionist who served as the 18th vice president of the United States under President Ulysses S. Grant.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Wilson canonical | 15 |
| Henry Wilson as Vice President of the United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T625888 — 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: Henry Wilson Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant, vicePresident, Henry Wilson]
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Lyman Trumbull
Lyman Trumbull was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the shaping of Reconstruction-era legislation.
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Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
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C.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass was an influential American politician and newspaper publisher who served as a U.S. senator from Virginia and played a key role in shaping early 20th-century banking and financial regulation.
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D.
George W. Norris
George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
- 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: Henry Wilson Target entity description: Henry Wilson was an American politician and abolitionist who served as the 18th vice president of the United States under President Ulysses S. Grant.
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A.
Lyman Trumbull
Lyman Trumbull was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the shaping of Reconstruction-era legislation.
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B.
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
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C.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass was an influential American politician and newspaper publisher who served as a U.S. senator from Virginia and played a key role in shaping early 20th-century banking and financial regulation.
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D.
George W. Norris
George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Henry Wilson Description of subject: Henry Wilson was an American politician and abolitionist who served as the 18th vice president of the United States under President Ulysses S. Grant.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henry Wilson as Vice President of the United States