Cushing
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Cushing is a surname most notably associated with American jurist and Squaw Valley Ski Resort founder Alexander Cushing, as well as a prominent New England family with historical influence in law and politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cushing canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2085398 — 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: Cushing Context triple: [Alexander Cushing, hasFamilyName, Cushing]
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A.
Hipple
Hipple is the birth surname of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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B.
Ewing
Ewing is a surname most prominently associated with Hall of Fame basketball player and coach Patrick Ewing.
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C.
Graves
Graves is a renowned wine-producing subregion on the left bank of Bordeaux, France, famous for its gravelly soils and high-quality red and white wines.
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D.
Kyllopodion
Kyllopodion is an epithet of the Greek god Hephaestus that highlights his lameness or crippled foot.
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E.
Cup’ig
Cup’ig are an Indigenous Yupik people of Nunivak Island in Alaska, known for their distinct language, subsistence lifestyle, and rich ceremonial traditions.
- 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: Cushing Target entity description: Cushing is a surname most notably associated with American jurist and Squaw Valley Ski Resort founder Alexander Cushing, as well as a prominent New England family with historical influence in law and politics.
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A.
Hipple
Hipple is the birth surname of American film and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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B.
Ewing
Ewing is a surname most prominently associated with Hall of Fame basketball player and coach Patrick Ewing.
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C.
Graves
Graves is a renowned wine-producing subregion on the left bank of Bordeaux, France, famous for its gravelly soils and high-quality red and white wines.
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D.
Kyllopodion
Kyllopodion is an epithet of the Greek god Hephaestus that highlights his lameness or crippled foot.
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E.
Cup’ig
Cup’ig are an Indigenous Yupik people of Nunivak Island in Alaska, known for their distinct language, subsistence lifestyle, and rich ceremonial traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ ski resort ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithField |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Cushing
ⓘ
Cushing ⓘ |
| founded |
Squaw Valley Ski Resort
ⓘ
linked to:
Squaw Valley
|
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Alexander Cushing ⓘ |
| hasNotableFamily | Cushing family ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Olympic Valley, California ⓘ
linked to:
Olympic Valley
|
| notableFor |
founding Squaw Valley Ski Resort
ⓘ
influence in law ⓘ influence in politics ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| regionOfProminence | New England ⓘ |
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: Cushing Description of subject: Cushing is a surname most notably associated with American jurist and Squaw Valley Ski Resort founder Alexander Cushing, as well as a prominent New England family with historical influence in law and politics.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cardinal Richard Cushing
subject linked to:
Cushing
subject linked to:
Cushing
subject linked to:
Betsey