David Herold
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David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Herold canonical | 31 |
| Adam George Herold | 1 |
| David Herold executed | 1 |
| David Herold surrendered at the barn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T186013 — 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: David Herold Context triple: [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, conspirator, David Herold]
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George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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C.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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D.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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E.
Junius Brutus Booth
Junius Brutus Booth was a renowned 19th-century English-born American Shakespearean actor known for his powerful performances and as the patriarch of the famous Booth acting family.
- 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: David Herold Target entity description: David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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A.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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B.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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C.
Philip Barton Key II
Philip Barton Key II was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, best known for his scandalous affair with Teresa Bagioli Sickles and his subsequent murder by her husband, Congressman Daniel Sickles.
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D.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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E.
Junius Brutus Booth
Junius Brutus Booth was a renowned 19th-century English-born American Shakespearean actor known for his powerful performances and as the patriarch of the famous Booth acting family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Herold Description of subject: David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Herold
Garrett farm near Port Royal, Virginia, United States
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David Herold surrendered at the barn
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linked to: David Herold
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Atzerodt
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Atzerodt
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Washington Arsenal Penitentiary, Washington, D.C.
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Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C., United States
linked to: David Herold