Augustus Wright
E180408
Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augustus Wright canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723664 — 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: Augustus Wright Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, Augustus Wright]
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A.
Horace Walker
Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
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B.
Augustin Smith Clayton
Augustin Smith Clayton was a 19th-century American jurist, politician, and U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
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C.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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D.
Elijah E. Myers
Elijah E. Myers was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing several major state capitol buildings across the United States.
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E.
William Jackson
William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
- 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: Augustus Wright Target entity description: Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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A.
Horace Walker
Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
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B.
Augustin Smith Clayton
Augustin Smith Clayton was a 19th-century American jurist, politician, and U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
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C.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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D.
Elijah E. Myers
Elijah E. Myers was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing several major state capitol buildings across the United States.
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E.
William Jackson
William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial agreement
ⓘ
person ⓘ stockbroker ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1790s
ⓘ
late 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| concludedIn | 1792 ⓘ |
| contributedTo | formation of a securities trading association in New York in 1792 ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateAssociatedWith | 1792 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
securities trading ⓘ stock exchange trading ⓘ |
| followedBy | formation of the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| helpedFound | precursor of the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping to found what became the New York Stock Exchange
ⓘ
participation in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| occupation |
broker
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stockbroker ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| role | early New York broker ⓘ |
| signed | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
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: Augustus Wright Description of subject: Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.