Andrew Jackson Donelson
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Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrew Jackson Donelson canonical | 10 |
| Andrew J. Donelson | 1 |
| Samuel Donelson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1758475 — 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: Andrew Jackson Donelson Context triple: [American Party, nominatedForVicePresident, Andrew Jackson Donelson]
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A.
John Marshall Clemens
John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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B.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
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C.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
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D.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
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E.
Owen Robertson Cheatham
Owen Robertson Cheatham was an American businessman best known for building Georgia-Pacific into one of the world’s leading forest products and paper companies.
- 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: Andrew Jackson Donelson Target entity description: Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
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A.
John Marshall Clemens
John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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B.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
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C.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was a 19th-century American statesman, jurist, and Confederate veteran who later served as a U.S. congressman, senator, cabinet member, and Supreme Court justice noted for his efforts at national reconciliation after the Civil War.
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D.
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
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E.
Owen Robertson Cheatham
Owen Robertson Cheatham was an American businessman best known for building Georgia-Pacific into one of the world’s leading forest products and paper companies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Andrew Jackson Donelson Description of subject: Andrew Jackson Donelson was a 19th-century American politician, diplomat, and nephew and namesake of President Andrew Jackson who served as U.S. minister to several European countries and ran for vice president in the 1856 election.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Andrew Jackson Donelson
linked to: Andrew Jackson Donelson
subject linked to:
the Donelson family