John Adams Dix
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John Adams Dix was a 19th-century American politician, Union Army general during the Civil War, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Adams Dix canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T842531 — 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: John Adams Dix Context triple: [Trinity Church Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, John Adams Dix]
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A.
William G. Marcy
William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
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B.
Rutherford Hayes Jr.
Rutherford Hayes Jr. was the son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, belonging to the prominent Hayes family of 19th-century American politics.
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C.
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
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D.
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857 and known for his support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into new territories.
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E.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, known for overseeing the end of Reconstruction and the controversial 1876 election that marked a key moment in the Gilded Age.
- 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: John Adams Dix Target entity description: John Adams Dix was a 19th-century American politician, Union Army general during the Civil War, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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A.
William G. Marcy
William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
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B.
Rutherford Hayes Jr.
Rutherford Hayes Jr. was the son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, belonging to the prominent Hayes family of 19th-century American politics.
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C.
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
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D.
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857 and known for his support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into new territories.
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E.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, known for overseeing the end of Reconstruction and the controversial 1876 election that marked a key moment in the Gilded Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Union Army general ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | James Buchanan ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan, New York City ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1798-07-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1879-04-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Phillips Exeter Academy ⓘ |
| endTime |
service as United States Senator from New York ended in 1849
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tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury ended in March 1861 ⓘ term as Governor of New York ended in 1874 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dix ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Adams ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| notableQuote | If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. ⓘ |
| notableWork | Order to shoot anyone attempting to haul down the American flag in New Orleans ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boscawen, New Hampshire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York
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linked to:
New York City
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| positionHeld |
Governor of New York
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Postmaster of New York City ⓘ United States Minister to France ⓘ
linked to:
United States Ambassador to France
United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Senator from New York ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Army ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Catherine Morgan ⓘ |
| startTime |
service as United States Senator from New York began in 1845
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tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury began in January 1861 ⓘ term as Governor of New York began in 1873 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: John Adams Dix Description of subject: John Adams Dix was a 19th-century American politician, Union Army general during the Civil War, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.