Angus King
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Angus King is an American politician and attorney serving as an independent U.S. Senator from Maine.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angus King canonical | 9 |
| Angus King III | 2 |
| Angus King;207,969 | 1 |
| Angus King;35.4% | 1 |
| Angus King;independent | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1762282 — 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: Angus King Context triple: [University of Maine, hasNotableAlumnus, Angus King]
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A.
Ned Lamont
Ned Lamont is an American businessman and Democratic politician serving as the governor of Connecticut.
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B.
Lamont Sanford
Lamont Sanford is a central character from the classic American sitcom "Sanford and Son," known as the long-suffering, pragmatic son who runs a junk business with his cantankerous father, Fred Sanford.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
John Spratt
John Spratt is an American Democratic politician who long represented South Carolina's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives and was known for his work on budget and defense issues.
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E.
Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Representative from Maine known for her work on environmental, agricultural, and campaign finance reform issues.
- 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: Angus King Target entity description: Angus King is an American politician and attorney serving as an independent U.S. Senator from Maine.
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A.
Ned Lamont
Ned Lamont is an American businessman and Democratic politician serving as the governor of Connecticut.
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B.
Lamont Sanford
Lamont Sanford is a central character from the classic American sitcom "Sanford and Son," known as the long-suffering, pragmatic son who runs a junk business with his cantankerous father, Fred Sanford.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
John Spratt
John Spratt is an American Democratic politician who long represented South Carolina's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives and was known for his work on budget and defense issues.
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E.
Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Representative from Maine known for her work on environmental, agricultural, and campaign finance reform issues.
- 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: Angus King Description of subject: Angus King is an American politician and attorney serving as an independent U.S. Senator from Maine.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Angus King
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linked to: Angus King
subject linked to:
Pineau Policy Associates (former)