Joseph Hodges Choate Jr.
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Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. was an American lawyer and public servant who served as the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph H. Choate Jr. | 1 |
| Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13192805 — 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: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. Context triple: [Joseph Hodges Choate, child, Joseph Hodges Choate Jr.]
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A.
Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate was a prominent American lawyer and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
William Gardner Choate
William Gardner Choate was an American lawyer, federal judge, and prominent educator who co-founded the prestigious preparatory school Choate Rosemary Hall.
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C.
Norton P. Otis
Norton P. Otis was an American businessman and politician from New York, known for his role in the elevator industry and service in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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D.
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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E.
Charles R. Otis
Charles R. Otis was the son of elevator pioneer Elisha Otis and a member of the family associated with the early development of safe elevator technology.
- 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: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. Target entity description: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. was an American lawyer and public servant who served as the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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A.
Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate was a prominent American lawyer and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
William Gardner Choate
William Gardner Choate was an American lawyer, federal judge, and prominent educator who co-founded the prestigious preparatory school Choate Rosemary Hall.
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C.
Norton P. Otis
Norton P. Otis was an American businessman and politician from New York, known for his role in the elevator industry and service in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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D.
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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E.
Charles R. Otis
Charles R. Otis was the son of elevator pioneer Elisha Otis and a member of the family associated with the early development of safe elevator technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. Description of subject: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr. was an American lawyer and public servant who served as the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Joseph Hodges Choate Jr.