Staats Long Morris
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American emigrant to the Kingdom of Great Britain
British Army officer
Member of Parliament of Great Britain
human
politician
Staats Long Morris was an 18th-century American-born British Army officer and politician from a prominent New York family who served as a Member of Parliament in Britain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Staats Long Morris canonical | 1 |
| Staats Morris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11031184 — 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: Staats Long Morris Context triple: [Morrisania, Province of New York, hasNotableResident, Staats Long Morris]
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A.
Jonathan Dayton
Jonathan Dayton is an American film and music video director best known for co-directing acclaimed feature films such as "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Battle of the Sexes" with Valerie Faris.
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B.
Jonathan Dayton
Jonathan Dayton was an American Founding Father who served as the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution and later as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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C.
Van Rensselaer
Van Rensselaer is the surname of a prominent Dutch-descended colonial and early American family influential in New York’s political, social, and landowning history.
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D.
Laurens
Laurens is a surname most notably associated with Henry Laurens, an American merchant, slave trader, and President of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
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E.
Laurens
Laurens is a small town located in Otsego County in central New York State.
- 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: Staats Long Morris Target entity description: Staats Long Morris was an 18th-century American-born British Army officer and politician from a prominent New York family who served as a Member of Parliament in Britain.
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A.
Jonathan Dayton
Jonathan Dayton is an American film and music video director best known for co-directing acclaimed feature films such as "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Battle of the Sexes" with Valerie Faris.
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B.
Jonathan Dayton
Jonathan Dayton was an American Founding Father who served as the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution and later as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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C.
Van Rensselaer
Van Rensselaer is the surname of a prominent Dutch-descended colonial and early American family influential in New York’s political, social, and landowning history.
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D.
Laurens
Laurens is a surname most notably associated with Henry Laurens, an American merchant, slave trader, and President of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
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E.
Laurens
Laurens is a small town located in Otsego County in central New York State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American emigrant to the Kingdom of Great Britain
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British Army officer ⓘ Member of Parliament of Great Britain ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1728-08-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
New York City
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Province of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Marylebone Parish Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1800-01-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Kingdom of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
York Place, Marylebone, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonist of Dutch descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Lewis Morris Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Staats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Morris family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Seven Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
general
ⓘ
lieutenant-general ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
36th Regiment of Foot
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
89th Regiment of Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Catherine Staats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
promoted to lieutenant-general in the British Army
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raised the 89th Regiment of Foot ⓘ served as colonel of the 36th Regiment of Foot ⓘ served in the Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Gouverneur Morris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lewis Morris, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as MP for Elgin Burghs in the Parliament of Great Britain ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| parliamentaryTerm | 1774–1784 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs ⓘ |
| residence |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| sibling |
Gouverneur Morris
NERFINISHED
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Lewis Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Catherine Gordon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jane Urquhart 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: Staats Long Morris Description of subject: Staats Long Morris was an 18th-century American-born British Army officer and politician from a prominent New York family who served as a Member of Parliament in Britain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lewis Morris
this entity surface form:
Staats Morris