Hiram Marble
E182909
Hiram Marble was a 19th-century spiritualist and treasure hunter best known for his decades-long attempt to uncover a supposed pirate treasure by tunneling into Dungeon Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hiram Marble canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1604336 — 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: Hiram Marble Context triple: [Dungeon Rock, excavatedBy, Hiram Marble]
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A.
Hiram
Hiram is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally meaning "exalted brother" or "my brother is exalted."
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B.
Moses Cleaveland
Moses Cleaveland was an American surveyor, lawyer, and politician best known for leading the expedition that established the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1796.
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C.
Henry Ives Cobb
Henry Ives Cobb was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential work in Chicago and for designing major institutional and academic buildings.
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D.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
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E.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 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: Hiram Marble Target entity description: Hiram Marble was a 19th-century spiritualist and treasure hunter best known for his decades-long attempt to uncover a supposed pirate treasure by tunneling into Dungeon Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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A.
Hiram
Hiram is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally meaning "exalted brother" or "my brother is exalted."
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B.
Moses Cleaveland
Moses Cleaveland was an American surveyor, lawyer, and politician best known for leading the expedition that established the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1796.
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C.
Henry Ives Cobb
Henry Ives Cobb was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his influential work in Chicago and for designing major institutional and academic buildings.
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D.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
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E.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
spiritualist ⓘ treasure hunter ⓘ |
| activity | tunneling into Dungeon Rock in search of treasure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dungeon Rock legend
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pirate treasure folklore in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| basedIn | Lynn, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| beliefSystem | spiritualism ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| genreOfActivity |
occult and spiritualist practices
ⓘ
treasure hunting ⓘ |
| hasReputation | persistent treasure hunter at Dungeon Rock ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 19th-century American spiritualism movement ⓘ |
| knownAs | Hiram Marble ⓘ |
| notableFor | attempting to uncover a supposed pirate treasure at Dungeon Rock ⓘ |
| occupation |
spiritualist
ⓘ
treasure hunter ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Dungeon Rock
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Lynn, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| projectDuration | decades-long treasure-hunting effort ⓘ |
| searchLocation | Dungeon Rock, Lynn, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| searchTarget | supposed pirate treasure ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
spiritualist practices in treasure hunting
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tunneling ⓘ |
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: Hiram Marble Description of subject: Hiram Marble was a 19th-century spiritualist and treasure hunter best known for his decades-long attempt to uncover a supposed pirate treasure by tunneling into Dungeon Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.