Frederic H. Spaulding
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Frederic H. Spaulding was an American educator and civic leader best known for establishing the University of Tampa in Florida.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frederic H. Spaulding canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1513809 — 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: Frederic H. Spaulding Context triple: [University of Tampa, founder, Frederic H. Spaulding]
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A.
Theodore B. Fernald
Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist known for his descriptive and analytical work on the Maricopa language.
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B.
Nathaniel Shaler
Nathaniel Shaler was a 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor known for his work in glacial geology and for popularizing geological science through influential writings.
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C.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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D.
Charles E. Clark
Charles E. Clark was a prominent American jurist and legal scholar who served as dean of Yale Law School and as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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E.
Charles Ranlett Flint
Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
- 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: Frederic H. Spaulding Target entity description: Frederic H. Spaulding was an American educator and civic leader best known for establishing the University of Tampa in Florida.
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A.
Theodore B. Fernald
Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist known for his descriptive and analytical work on the Maricopa language.
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B.
Nathaniel Shaler
Nathaniel Shaler was a 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor known for his work in glacial geology and for popularizing geological science through influential writings.
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C.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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D.
Charles E. Clark
Charles E. Clark was a prominent American jurist and legal scholar who served as dean of Yale Law School and as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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E.
Charles Ranlett Flint
Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ university founder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
University of Tampa institutional history
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local Tampa educational history ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civic leadership
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higher education ⓘ |
| founded | University of Tampa ⓘ |
| genre | educational leadership ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | key figure in the early history of the University of Tampa ⓘ |
| notableFor | establishing the University of Tampa ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding the University of Tampa ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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civic leader ⓘ educator ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Tampa, Florida ⓘ |
| residence | Tampa, Florida ⓘ |
| sector |
civic affairs
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education ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Florida
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Tampa ⓘ
linked to:
Tampa, Florida
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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: Frederic H. Spaulding Description of subject: Frederic H. Spaulding was an American educator and civic leader best known for establishing the University of Tampa in Florida.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.