Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
All labels observed (15)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1579 — 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: Abraham Lincoln Context triple: [National Academy of Sciences, foundedBy, Abraham Lincoln]
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President Harry S. Truman
President Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, known for making the decision to use atomic bombs in World War II, implementing the Marshall Plan, and shaping early Cold War policy.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States, who led the nation through the Great Depression and most of World War II and implemented the transformative New Deal reforms.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
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James Roosevelt I
James Roosevelt I was an American businessman and prominent member of the Roosevelt family, best known as the father of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy was a long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and a leading figure in liberal politics, particularly known for his work on health care, civil rights, and social welfare legislation.
- 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: Abraham Lincoln Target entity description: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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President Harry S. Truman
President Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, known for making the decision to use atomic bombs in World War II, implementing the Marshall Plan, and shaping early Cold War policy.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States, who led the nation through the Great Depression and most of World War II and implemented the transformative New Deal reforms.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
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James Roosevelt I
James Roosevelt I was an American businessman and prominent member of the Roosevelt family, best known as the father of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy was a long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and a leading figure in liberal politics, particularly known for his work on health care, civil rights, and social welfare legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Abraham Lincoln Description of subject: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
Referenced by (671)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Abraham Lincoln
subject linked to:
Abraham
linked to: Abraham Lincoln
linked to: Abraham Lincoln
subject linked to:
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
linked to: Abraham Lincoln
linked to: Abraham Lincoln
linked to: Abraham Lincoln
subject linked to:
George McClellan
subject linked to:
George McClellan