William H. Crawford
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William H. Crawford was an influential early 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as U.S. senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and a presidential candidate.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William H. Crawford canonical | 16 |
| William Harris Crawford | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2271717 — 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 H. Crawford Context triple: [Crawford County, Georgia, namedAfter, William H. Crawford]
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Quincy Adams
Quincy Adams is a major MBTA rapid transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts, providing park-and-ride access to Boston via the Red Line.
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George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States and a prominent American diplomat, statesman, and congressman known for his strong anti-slavery stance and influential foreign policy.
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D.
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States, best known for the Monroe Doctrine and for overseeing an era of national expansion and relative political unity in the early 19th century.
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E.
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was a prominent 19th-century American statesman, military officer, and diplomat who served as governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. senator, secretary of war, and Democratic presidential candidate.
- 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 H. Crawford Target entity description: William H. Crawford was an influential early 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as U.S. senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and a presidential candidate.
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A.
Quincy Adams
Quincy Adams is a major MBTA rapid transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts, providing park-and-ride access to Boston via the Red Line.
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B.
George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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C.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States and a prominent American diplomat, statesman, and congressman known for his strong anti-slavery stance and influential foreign policy.
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D.
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States, best known for the Monroe Doctrine and for overseeing an era of national expansion and relative political unity in the early 19th century.
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E.
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was a prominent 19th-century American statesman, military officer, and diplomat who served as governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. senator, secretary of war, and Democratic presidential candidate.
- 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: William H. Crawford Description of subject: William H. Crawford was an influential early 19th-century American politician and statesman who served as U.S. senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and a presidential candidate.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Crawford County
linked to: William H. Crawford
subject linked to:
Crawford County
linked to: William H. Crawford