James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James A. Garfield canonical | 93 |
| James Abram Garfield | 8 |
| President James A. Garfield | 2 |
| 20th President of the United States James A. Garfield | 1 |
| President Garfield | 1 |
| chose James A. Garfield as president | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11783 — 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 A. Garfield Context triple: [Gilded Age, notablePoliticalFigure, James A. Garfield]
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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.
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B.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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C.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
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D.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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E.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
- 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 A. Garfield Target entity description: James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
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A.
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.
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B.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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C.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and a former Union Civil War general whose administration marked the early years of the Gilded Age.
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D.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
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E.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 A. Garfield Description of subject: James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
Referenced by (106)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Rutherford
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Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
1880 United States presidential election
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electoralCollege
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chose James A. Garfield as president
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linked to: James A. Garfield
subject linked to:
Malcolm MacArthur
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village of Moreland Hills, Ohio