James Alexander Hamilton
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James Alexander Hamilton was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the third son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who served as acting U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Jackson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Alexander Hamilton canonical | 9 |
| Alexander Hamilton (the younger brother, sometimes called James Alexander Hamilton) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10414332 — 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: James Alexander Hamilton Context triple: [Philip Hamilton, sibling, James Alexander Hamilton]
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A.
Alexander Hamilton Vinton
Alexander Hamilton Vinton was an American Episcopal bishop who served as a leading religious figure in the early 20th century, particularly within the Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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B.
William Hamilton
William Hamilton was an 18th-century British diplomat and noted volcanologist and art collector, best known for his service as ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples.
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William Hamilton
William Hamilton is an editor known for his work on the film "Gunga Din."
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D.
Philip Hamilton
Philip Hamilton was the eldest son of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, known for his tragic death in a duel at a young age.
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John Schuyler
John Schuyler was a colonial American military officer from New York who led provincial forces against the French and their Indigenous allies during King William’s War in the late 17th century.
- 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: James Alexander Hamilton Target entity description: James Alexander Hamilton was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the third son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who served as acting U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Jackson.
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A.
Alexander Hamilton Vinton
Alexander Hamilton Vinton was an American Episcopal bishop who served as a leading religious figure in the early 20th century, particularly within the Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
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B.
William Hamilton
William Hamilton is an editor known for his work on the film "Gunga Din."
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C.
William Hamilton
William Hamilton was an 18th-century British diplomat and noted volcanologist and art collector, best known for his service as ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples.
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D.
Philip Hamilton
Philip Hamilton was the eldest son of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, known for his tragic death in a duel at a young age.
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E.
John Schuyler
John Schuyler was a colonial American military officer from New York who led provincial forces against the French and their Indigenous allies during King William’s War in the late 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: James Alexander Hamilton Description of subject: James Alexander Hamilton was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the third son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who served as acting U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Jackson.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Alexander Hamilton Jr.
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sibling
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Alexander Hamilton (the younger brother, sometimes called James Alexander Hamilton)
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linked to: James Alexander Hamilton