David Edgar Herold
E156030
David Edgar Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who aided in the escape after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and was later executed for his role in the conspiracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Edgar Herold canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1101721 — 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: David Edgar Herold Context triple: [David Herold, fullName, David Edgar Herold]
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A.
Henry Hess
Henry Hess was a notable figure in whose honor the Henry Hess Award was established, recognizing significant contributions in his field.
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B.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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C.
Harold F. Gosnell
Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
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D.
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was a powerful American oil tycoon and political influencer who became one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Henry Lawrence
Henry Lawrence was a British colonial administrator and soldier in India, best known for his leadership and death during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 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: David Edgar Herold Target entity description: David Edgar Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who aided in the escape after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and was later executed for his role in the conspiracy.
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A.
Henry Hess
Henry Hess was a notable figure in whose honor the Henry Hess Award was established, recognizing significant contributions in his field.
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B.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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C.
Harold F. Gosnell
Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
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D.
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was a powerful American oil tycoon and political influencer who became one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Henry Lawrence
Henry Lawrence was a British colonial administrator and soldier in India, best known for his leadership and death during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Edgar Herold Description of subject: David Edgar Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who aided in the escape after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and was later executed for his role in the conspiracy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.