William Bell Paterson
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William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Bell Paterson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2328089 — 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 Bell Paterson Context triple: [William Paterson, child, William Bell Paterson]
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A.
David G. Burnet
David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
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B.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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C.
Thomas W. Knox
Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
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D.
Peter Hardeman Burnett
Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
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E.
Amos Kendall
Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
- 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 Bell Paterson Target entity description: William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
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A.
David G. Burnet
David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
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B.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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C.
Thomas W. Knox
Thomas W. Knox was a 19th-century American journalist and author known for his Civil War reporting and popular travel and adventure books.
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D.
Peter Hardeman Burnett
Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
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E.
Amos Kendall
Amos Kendall was a prominent 19th-century American journalist, political adviser, and U.S. Postmaster General who was a key member of President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | William Bell Paterson ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Paterson ⓘ |
| father | William Paterson ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasAncestry | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork | New Jersey Plan ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Constitutional Convention of 1787
ⓘ
linked to:
Constitutional Convention
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| placeOfBirth |
County Antrim, Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
County Antrim
|
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
Governor of New Jersey ⓘ United States Senator ⓘ |
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 Bell Paterson Description of subject: William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
William Bell Paterson