Richard Howell
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Richard Howell was an American Revolutionary War officer and the third Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1794 to 1801.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Howell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13023223 — 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: Richard Howell Context triple: [Howell Township, New Jersey, namedAfter, Richard Howell]
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A.
Clive Mullally
Clive Mullally is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Mullally, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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B.
Jeremy Saunders
Jeremy Saunders is a recurring fictional character in Satyajit Ray’s Bengali science-fiction “Professor Shonku” stories, typically appearing as an English associate in the professor’s adventurous experiments.
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C.
Richard Learoyd
Richard Learoyd is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "Gods of Egypt."
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D.
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
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E.
Lewis Morley
Lewis Morley was a British photographer best known for his iconic 1963 portrait of model Christine Keeler, which became emblematic of the Profumo affair era.
- 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: Richard Howell Target entity description: Richard Howell was an American Revolutionary War officer and the third Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1794 to 1801.
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A.
Clive Mullally
Clive Mullally is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Mullally, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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B.
Jeremy Saunders
Jeremy Saunders is a recurring fictional character in Satyajit Ray’s Bengali science-fiction “Professor Shonku” stories, typically appearing as an English associate in the professor’s adventurous experiments.
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C.
Richard Learoyd
Richard Learoyd is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "Gods of Egypt."
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D.
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
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E.
Lewis Morley
Lewis Morley was a British photographer best known for his iconic 1963 portrait of model Christine Keeler, which became emblematic of the Profumo affair era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Governor of New Jersey ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
British America (colonial period)
ⓘ
linked to:
British America
United States (post-independence) ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Howell ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| governmentOfficeOrTitle | Governor ⓘ |
| jurisdictionGoverned |
State of New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Federalist Party
ⓘ
linked to:
Federalists
|
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as an officer in the American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
service as the third Governor of New Jersey ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1801 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1794 ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 3rd Governor of New Jersey ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of New Jersey
ⓘ
history of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New Jersey
ⓘ
officer in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| residence |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| stateRepresented |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| workLocation | Trenton, New Jersey ⓘ |
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: Richard Howell Description of subject: Richard Howell was an American Revolutionary War officer and the third Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1794 to 1801.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.