William Livingston
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William Livingston was an American Revolutionary leader, lawyer, and the first governor of the state of New Jersey, serving from 1776 until his death in 1790.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Livingston canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1943326 — 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 Livingston Context triple: [William Franklin, successorInOffice, William Livingston]
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A.
Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
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B.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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C.
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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D.
William Franklin
William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
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E.
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.
- 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 Livingston Target entity description: William Livingston was an American Revolutionary leader, lawyer, and the first governor of the state of New Jersey, serving from 1776 until his death in 1790.
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A.
Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
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B.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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C.
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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D.
William Franklin
William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
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E.
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.
- 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: William Livingston Description of subject: William Livingston was an American Revolutionary leader, lawyer, and the first governor of the state of New Jersey, serving from 1776 until his death in 1790.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.