Samuel Smith
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Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Smith canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T62036 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Smith Context triple: [Battle of Baltimore, commander, Samuel Smith]
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A.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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B.
Samuel Maverick
Samuel Maverick was a young Boston apprentice who became one of the five colonists killed in the 1770 Boston Massacre, later remembered as an early martyr of the American Revolution.
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C.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Beekman
Beekman is a small town in Dutchess County, New York, known for its rural character and residential communities within the Hudson Valley region.
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E.
Al Reser
Al Reser was an American businessman and Oregon State University alumnus best known as the longtime head of Reser's Fine Foods and a major benefactor of OSU athletics.
- 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: Samuel Smith Target entity description: Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
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A.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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B.
Samuel Maverick
Samuel Maverick was a young Boston apprentice who became one of the five colonists killed in the 1770 Boston Massacre, later remembered as an early martyr of the American Revolution.
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C.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Beekman
Beekman is a small town in Dutchess County, New York, known for its rural character and residential communities within the Hudson Valley region.
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E.
Al Reser
Al Reser was an American businessman and Oregon State University alumnus best known as the longtime head of Reser's Fine Foods and a major benefactor of OSU athletics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Samuel Smith Description of subject: Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.