Robert C. Weaver
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Robert C. Weaver was an American economist and public administrator who became the first African American to serve in a U.S. Cabinet position as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert C. Weaver canonical | 6 |
| Robert Clifton Weaver | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1983962 — 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: Robert C. Weaver Context triple: [Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, namedAfter, Robert C. Weaver]
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A. Philip Powell
A. Philip Powell was a prominent British historian and Hispanist known for his influential work on the history and culture of Spain and Latin America.
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Sumner W. Jackson
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Robert L. Carter
Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Louis Stokes
Louis Stokes was an influential American politician and civil rights advocate who served as a long-time U.S. Representative from Ohio and played key roles in high-profile congressional investigations.
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Alonzo W. Rollins
Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
- 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: Robert C. Weaver Target entity description: Robert C. Weaver was an American economist and public administrator who became the first African American to serve in a U.S. Cabinet position as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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A.
A. Philip Powell
A. Philip Powell was a prominent British historian and Hispanist known for his influential work on the history and culture of Spain and Latin America.
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B.
Sumner W. Jackson
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
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C.
Robert L. Carter
Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Louis Stokes
Louis Stokes was an influential American politician and civil rights advocate who served as a long-time U.S. Representative from Ohio and played key roles in high-profile congressional investigations.
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E.
Alonzo W. Rollins
Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Robert C. Weaver Description of subject: Robert C. Weaver was an American economist and public administrator who became the first African American to serve in a U.S. Cabinet position as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.