Hercules Mulligan
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Hercules Mulligan is a historical American tailor and spy during the Revolutionary War, best known in popular culture as a character in the musical "Hamilton."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hercules Mulligan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10414857 — 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: Hercules Mulligan Context triple: [Okieriete Onaodowan, notableRole, Hercules Mulligan]
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A.
Max Dugan
Max Dugan is the mysterious, long-absent grandfather whose sudden reappearance with a suitcase of money drives the plot of the 1983 comedy-drama film "Max Dugan Returns."
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B.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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C.
Max O’Hara
Max O’Hara is a fast-talking, ambitious showman and nightclub promoter who brings the giant gorilla Joe to Hollywood in the 1949 adventure film "Mighty Joe Young."
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D.
Lincoln McIlravy
Lincoln McIlravy is a former American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, a multiple-time NCAA champion and Olympic bronze medalist known as one of the University of Iowa’s all-time greats.
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E.
Sam Sheridan
Sam Sheridan is an American writer and former firefighter and sailor, best known for his nonfiction books about combat sports and survival.
- 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: Hercules Mulligan Target entity description: Hercules Mulligan is a historical American tailor and spy during the Revolutionary War, best known in popular culture as a character in the musical "Hamilton."
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A.
Max Dugan
Max Dugan is the mysterious, long-absent grandfather whose sudden reappearance with a suitcase of money drives the plot of the 1983 comedy-drama film "Max Dugan Returns."
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B.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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C.
Max O’Hara
Max O’Hara is a fast-talking, ambitious showman and nightclub promoter who brings the giant gorilla Joe to Hollywood in the 1949 adventure film "Mighty Joe Young."
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D.
Lincoln McIlravy
Lincoln McIlravy is a former American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler, a multiple-time NCAA champion and Olympic bronze medalist known as one of the University of Iowa’s all-time greats.
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E.
Sam Sheridan
Sam Sheridan is an American writer and former firefighter and sailor, best known for his nonfiction books about combat sports and survival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War spy
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patriot ⓘ person ⓘ tailor ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Army
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alexander Hamilton
NERFINISHED
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George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City patriot network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessLocation | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessType | tailor shop ⓘ |
| closeFriend | Alexander Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1740-09-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1825-03-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University (historical predecessor)
NERFINISHED
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King's College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | British officers (as tailor) ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Mulligan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Hercules NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
18th century
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American Revolutionary era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | American independence movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedPersonToPlace | Alexander Hamilton – New York social and political circles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sons of Liberty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Alexander Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
posing as a loyalist while spying for the patriots
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warning George Washington of British plots on his life ⓘ |
| notableWork | intelligence gathering for the Continental Army ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
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spy ⓘ tailor ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| portrayedAs | character in the musical Hamilton ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Hamilton (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| servedClient |
British Army officers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British loyalists ⓘ |
| sibling | Hugh Mulligan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedPositionFor | gathering military intelligence ⓘ |
| workedFor | George Washington (as intelligence source) 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: Hercules Mulligan Description of subject: Hercules Mulligan is a historical American tailor and spy during the Revolutionary War, best known in popular culture as a character in the musical "Hamilton."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.