William L. Riordon
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William L. Riordon was an American journalist best known for recording and publishing the political speeches and sayings of Tammany Hall leader George Washington Plunkitt in "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall."
All labels observed (1)
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| William L. Riordon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7543306 — 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: William L. Riordon Context triple: [George Washington Plunkitt, interviewedBy, William L. Riordon]
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Ralph E. Ogden
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Charles B. Eddy
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Morton M. Denn
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Herbert J. Spinden
Herbert J. Spinden was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on Mesoamerican civilizations and the development of a chronological correlation for the Maya calendar.
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John A. Todd
John A. Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra and geometry and for mentoring prominent figures such as Roger Penrose.
- 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: William L. Riordon Target entity description: William L. Riordon was an American journalist best known for recording and publishing the political speeches and sayings of Tammany Hall leader George Washington Plunkitt in "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall."
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A.
Ralph E. Ogden
Ralph E. Ogden was an American businessman and arts patron best known for establishing the Storm King Art Center, one of the world’s leading outdoor sculpture parks.
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B.
Charles B. Eddy
Charles B. Eddy was an American businessman and railroad promoter influential in the development of southeastern New Mexico, for whom Eddy County was named.
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C.
Morton M. Denn
Morton M. Denn is a prominent chemical engineer and rheologist known for his influential research in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and polymer processing.
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D.
Herbert J. Spinden
Herbert J. Spinden was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on Mesoamerican civilizations and the development of a chronological correlation for the Maya calendar.
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E.
John A. Todd
John A. Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra and geometry and for mentoring prominent figures such as Roger Penrose.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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journalist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Tammany Hall ⓘ |
| author | William L. Riordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | George Washington Plunkitt’s talks at the New York County Court House ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs | American journalist who recorded the political philosophy of George Washington Plunkitt ⓘ |
| employer | New York Evening Post ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American urban politics
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politics ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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political writing ⓘ |
| hasRole |
editor of George Washington Plunkitt’s talks
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interviewer of George Washington Plunkitt ⓘ |
| influenced | later studies of American political machines ⓘ |
| knownFor |
documenting Tammany Hall politics
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recording the speeches and sayings of George Washington Plunkitt ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
George Washington Plunkitt
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Tammany Hall ⓘ political corruption ⓘ urban political machines ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
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linked to:
George Washington Plunkitt
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfNotableWork | 1905 ⓘ |
| sourceOfInformationFor | historical research on Tammany Hall ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| workPublishedIn | New York Evening Post ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
George Washington Plunkitt
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Tammany Hall ⓘ machine politics ⓘ |
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: William L. Riordon Description of subject: William L. Riordon was an American journalist best known for recording and publishing the political speeches and sayings of Tammany Hall leader George Washington Plunkitt in "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall."
Referenced by (1)
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