Uncle Sam Memorial Statue
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The Uncle Sam Memorial Statue is a public monument in Arlington, Massachusetts, honoring Samuel Wilson, the local meatpacker whose name and image inspired the national personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uncle Sam Memorial Statue canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T705332 — 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: Uncle Sam Memorial Statue Context triple: [Arlington, Massachusetts, hasHistoricSite, Uncle Sam Memorial Statue]
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A.
George Washington statue
The George Washington statue is a prominent public monument depicting the first U.S. president, located on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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B.
Marine Corps War Memorial
The Marine Corps War Memorial is a monumental bronze sculpture near Arlington National Cemetery that depicts the iconic World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima, honoring all U.S. Marine Corps personnel who have died in defense of the United States.
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C.
The Minute Man statue
The Minute Man statue is a famous bronze sculpture in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the colonial militia who fought in the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Statue of Freedom
The Statue of Freedom is the bronze allegorical figure of Liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a prominent Washington, D.C. monument honoring the Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, featuring a large equestrian statue and elaborate sculptural groups.
- 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: Uncle Sam Memorial Statue Target entity description: The Uncle Sam Memorial Statue is a public monument in Arlington, Massachusetts, honoring Samuel Wilson, the local meatpacker whose name and image inspired the national personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam."
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A.
George Washington statue
The George Washington statue is a prominent public monument depicting the first U.S. president, located on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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B.
Marine Corps War Memorial
The Marine Corps War Memorial is a monumental bronze sculpture near Arlington National Cemetery that depicts the iconic World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima, honoring all U.S. Marine Corps personnel who have died in defense of the United States.
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C.
The Minute Man statue
The Minute Man statue is a famous bronze sculpture in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the colonial militia who fought in the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Statue of Freedom
The Statue of Freedom is the bronze allegorical figure of Liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a prominent Washington, D.C. monument honoring the Civil War general and 18th U.S. president, featuring a large equestrian statue and elaborate sculptural groups.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
memorial
ⓘ
outdoor sculpture ⓘ public monument ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
Samuel Wilson
ⓘ
Uncle Sam ⓘ |
| genre | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | Uncle Sam Memorial Statue self-link ⓘ |
| hasPart |
pedestal
ⓘ
statue of Samuel Wilson ⓘ |
| hasPublicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | local landmark ⓘ |
| honours |
Sam Wilson
ⓘ
surface form:
Samuel Wilson
|
| inception | 20th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arlington, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ Middlesex County, Massachusetts ⓘ New England ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Arlington
ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Arlington
|
| locationHasLatitude | 42.415 ⓘ |
| locationHasLongitude | -71.156 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Arlington
ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Arlington
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| materialUsed |
metal
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| owner |
Arlington
ⓘ
surface form:
Town of Arlington
|
| subjectOf | Uncle Sam ⓘ |
| use |
commemorative
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
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: Uncle Sam Memorial Statue Description of subject: The Uncle Sam Memorial Statue is a public monument in Arlington, Massachusetts, honoring Samuel Wilson, the local meatpacker whose name and image inspired the national personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arlington, Massachusetts