James McNair Baker
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James McNair Baker was a 19th-century American jurist and politician from Florida, notably serving as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James McNair Baker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T630762 — 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: James McNair Baker Context triple: [Baker County, Florida, namedAfter, James McNair Baker]
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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E.
George R. Brown
George R. Brown was an American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the construction firm Brown & Root and a major benefactor of educational and civic institutions in Houston, Texas.
- 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: James McNair Baker Target entity description: James McNair Baker was a 19th-century American jurist and politician from Florida, notably serving as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
Holland M. Smith
Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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E.
George R. Brown
George R. Brown was an American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the construction firm Brown & Root and a major benefactor of educational and civic institutions in Houston, Texas.
- 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: James McNair Baker Description of subject: James McNair Baker was a 19th-century American jurist and politician from Florida, notably serving as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.