Harry Hopkins
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Harry Hopkins was a key American social worker and close advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who directed major New Deal relief programs during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Hopkins canonical | 19 |
| Harry Lloyd Hopkins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6819 — 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: Harry Hopkins Context triple: [Works Progress Administration, notableLeader, Harry Hopkins]
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A.
Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace was an American politician, agricultural expert, and progressive leader who served as the 33rd Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Herbert Hoover Jr.
Herbert Hoover Jr. was an American engineer, businessman, and diplomat who served as U.S. Under Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration.
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C.
John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner was an American Democratic politician who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States and a powerful Speaker of the House before that.
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D.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a prominent American political figure, diplomat, and activist who redefined the role of First Lady and championed human rights and social justice worldwide.
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E.
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Alfred N. Goldsmith was an American electrical engineer and radio pioneer who played a key role in the early development and professionalization of radio engineering.
- 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: Harry Hopkins Target entity description: Harry Hopkins was a key American social worker and close advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who directed major New Deal relief programs during the Great Depression.
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A.
Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace was an American politician, agricultural expert, and progressive leader who served as the 33rd Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Herbert Hoover Jr.
Herbert Hoover Jr. was an American engineer, businessman, and diplomat who served as U.S. Under Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration.
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C.
John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner was an American Democratic politician who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States and a powerful Speaker of the House before that.
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D.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a prominent American political figure, diplomat, and activist who redefined the role of First Lady and championed human rights and social justice worldwide.
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E.
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Alfred N. Goldsmith was an American electrical engineer and radio pioneer who played a key role in the early development and professionalization of radio engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American social worker
ⓘ
human ⓘ political advisor ⓘ |
| advisorTo |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
| burialPlace | Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach cancer ⓘ |
| closeAdvisorTo |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1890-08-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1946-01-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Grinnell College ⓘ |
| employer |
Government of the State of New York
ⓘ
surface form:
New York State government
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| familyName | Hopkins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic relief policy
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ social welfare ⓘ |
| fullName |
Harry Hopkins
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Harry Lloyd Hopkins
|
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| influenced |
U.S. social welfare policy
ⓘ
implementation of the New Deal ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| notableFor |
being one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's closest advisors
ⓘ
directing major New Deal relief programs during the Great Depression ⓘ role in World War II diplomacy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Civil Works Administration
ⓘ
Federal Emergency Relief Administration ⓘ Works Progress Administration ⓘ administration of New Deal relief programs ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
ⓘ
political advisor ⓘ social worker ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
New Deal
ⓘ
World War II diplomacy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Sioux City, Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
Sioux City, Iowa, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
ⓘ
Administrator of the Works Progress Administration ⓘ Chair of the Munitions Assignments Board ⓘ Head of the Civil Works Administration ⓘ Special Assistant to the President ⓘ Secretary of Commerce of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Secretary of Commerce
|
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| spouse |
Barbara Duncan
ⓘ
Ethel Gross ⓘ Louise Gill Macy ⓘ |
| workedUnder |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman ⓘ |
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: Harry Hopkins Description of subject: Harry Hopkins was a key American social worker and close advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who directed major New Deal relief programs during the Great Depression.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Harry Lloyd Hopkins
subject surface form:
Works Progress Administration