James B. Speed
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James B. Speed was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James B. Speed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10641270 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James B. Speed Context triple: [Cave Hill Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, James B. Speed]
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A.
Joseph Twichell House
The Joseph Twichell House is a historic residence in Hartford, Connecticut, associated with Reverend Joseph Twichell, a close friend of Mark Twain and a notable figure in the Nook Farm literary community.
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B.
John Slidell
John Slidell was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Louisiana, known for his role in the lead-up to the Mexican–American War and his involvement in the Confederate diplomatic mission during the American Civil War.
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C.
Henry Breckinridge
Henry Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century and was notably involved in national defense and Democratic Party politics.
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D.
Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
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E.
John B. Floyd
John B. Floyd was a Confederate general and former U.S. Secretary of War best known for his controversial leadership and retreat during the early Civil War, including the events surrounding Fort Donelson.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James B. Speed Target entity description: James B. Speed was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Joseph Twichell House
The Joseph Twichell House is a historic residence in Hartford, Connecticut, associated with Reverend Joseph Twichell, a close friend of Mark Twain and a notable figure in the Nook Farm literary community.
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B.
John Slidell
John Slidell was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Louisiana, known for his role in the lead-up to the Mexican–American War and his involvement in the Confederate diplomatic mission during the American Civil War.
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C.
Henry Breckinridge
Henry Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century and was notably involved in national defense and Democratic Party politics.
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D.
Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
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E.
John B. Floyd
John B. Floyd was a Confederate general and former U.S. Secretary of War best known for his controversial leadership and retreat during the early Civil War, including the events surrounding Fort Donelson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Attorney General
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St. Joseph's College (Bardstown, Kentucky)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Transylvania University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
United States Department of Justice
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
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| familyName | Speed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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politics ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Abraham Lincoln
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joshua Fry Speed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as U.S. Attorney General during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| partOf | Lincoln administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Louisville city attorney
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United States Attorney General NERFINISHED ⓘ member of the Kentucky House of Representatives ⓘ |
| predecessor | Edward Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| residence | Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Joshua Fry Speed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Henry Stanbery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported | Union cause in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| workLocation | Louisville, Kentucky 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: James B. Speed Description of subject: James B. Speed was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cave Hill Cemetery