George Clymer
E181708
American politician
Founding Father of the United States
human
signer of the United States Constitution
signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
George Clymer was an American Founding Father who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and later served as a statesman and politician.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Clymer canonical | 10 |
| Founding Father George Clymer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1591153 — 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: George Clymer Context triple: [Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey), hasNotableBurial, George Clymer]
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A.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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B.
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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C.
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
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D.
William Paterson
William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
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E.
Robert Yates
Robert Yates was an American judge and political leader from New York best known for his influential Anti-Federalist writings opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
- 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: George Clymer Target entity description: George Clymer was an American Founding Father who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and later served as a statesman and politician.
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A.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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B.
Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Pennsylvania.
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C.
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
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D.
William Paterson
William Paterson was an American statesman, New Jersey governor, and U.S. Supreme Court justice who played a key role in drafting the U.S. Constitution, including proposing the New Jersey Plan.
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E.
Robert Yates
Robert Yates was an American judge and political leader from New York best known for his influential Anti-Federalist writings opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Founding Father of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ signer of the United States Constitution ⓘ signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Friends Meetinghouse Cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1739-03-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1813-01-23 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Clymer ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Reese Meredith ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasPartInNameOf | USS George Clymer (APA-27) ⓘ |
| honoredIn | Clymer, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of the few men to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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linked to:
Pennsylvania
Province of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Continental Congress
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Second Continental Congress ⓘ United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | contributions to early U.S. financial policy ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
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patriot ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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Province of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Morrisville, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Collector of Customs at Philadelphia
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Member of the Continental Congress ⓘ Member of the Pennsylvania Legislature ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterianism
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linked to:
Presbyterian
|
| represented | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| residence |
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
signed the United States Constitution
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signed the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Meredith ⓘ |
| supported | American independence from Great Britain ⓘ |
| workedOn | financial administration of the Continental Congress ⓘ |
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: George Clymer Description of subject: George Clymer was an American Founding Father who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and later served as a statesman and politician.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Friends Meetinghouse Cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey
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notableBurial
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Founding Father George Clymer
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linked to: George Clymer