William Paulding Jr.
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William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Paulding Jr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1639710 — 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: William Paulding Jr. Context triple: [Lyndhurst Mansion, notableOwner, William Paulding Jr.]
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A.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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B.
Holmes C. Hartfield
Holmes C. Hartfield is an author known for writing the work titled "A Call for Unity."
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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.
Augustus Wright
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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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- 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: William Paulding Jr. Target entity description: William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
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A.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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B.
Holmes C. Hartfield
Holmes C. Hartfield is an author known for writing the work titled "A Call for Unity."
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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.
Augustus Wright
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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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: William Paulding Jr. Description of subject: William Paulding Jr. was a 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of New York City and later owned the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.