Gunning Bedford Jr.
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Gunning Bedford Jr. was an American lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who served as a federal judge from Delaware.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gunning Bedford Jr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9614057 — 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: Gunning Bedford Jr. Context triple: [Gunning Bedford Sr., sharesNameWith, Gunning Bedford Jr.]
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A.
Richard Caswell
Richard Caswell was an American Revolutionary leader who became the first governor of the state of North Carolina and played a key role in its early government.
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B.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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C.
James Barbour
James Barbour was an early 19th-century American statesman from Virginia who served as governor, U.S. senator, and Secretary of War.
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D.
John Jeffries
John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
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E.
William Ellery
William Ellery was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.
- 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: Gunning Bedford Jr. Target entity description: Gunning Bedford Jr. was an American lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who served as a federal judge from Delaware.
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A.
Richard Caswell
Richard Caswell was an American Revolutionary leader who became the first governor of the state of North Carolina and played a key role in its early government.
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B.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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C.
James Barbour
James Barbour was an early 19th-century American statesman from Virginia who served as governor, U.S. senator, and Secretary of War.
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D.
John Jeffries
John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
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E.
William Ellery
William Ellery was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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human ⓘ judge ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| almaMater | Princeton University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1747-04-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBurial | 1812-04-02 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1812-03-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Wilmington, Delaware, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Bedford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gunning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | Jr. ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United States District Court for the District of Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early federal judiciary service from Delaware
ⓘ
signer of the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Constitutional Convention
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Continental Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major ⓘ |
| notableWork | advocacy for small-state interests at the Constitutional Convention ⓘ |
| occupation |
delegate to the Continental Congress
ⓘ
judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
Philadelphia Convention of 1787 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partyAffiliation | Federalist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of Delaware
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States District Judge for the District of Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ delegate to the Continental Congress from Delaware ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| represented | Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Wilmington, Delaware, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Ballareau Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfPrimaryPractice | Delaware 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: Gunning Bedford Jr. Description of subject: Gunning Bedford Jr. was an American lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, and signer of the U.S. Constitution who served as a federal judge from Delaware.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gunning Bedford Sr.
subject surface form:
Gunning Bedford Sr.