Francis Scott Key
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Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and amateur poet best known for writing the lyrics that became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Francis Scott Key canonical | 38 |
| Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17322 — 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: Francis Scott Key Context triple: [The Star-Spangled Banner, lyricsBy, Francis Scott Key]
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A.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was a pioneering 19th-century American author best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
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B.
John Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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C.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Pierre Charles L’Enfant was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for creating the original plan for the city of Washington, D.C.
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D.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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E.
James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator best known for creating the iconic World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army."
- 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: Francis Scott Key Target entity description: Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and amateur poet best known for writing the lyrics that became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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A.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was a pioneering 19th-century American author best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
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B.
John Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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C.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant
Pierre Charles L’Enfant was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for creating the original plan for the city of Washington, D.C.
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D.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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E.
James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator best known for creating the iconic World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Francis Scott Key Description of subject: Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and amateur poet best known for writing the lyrics that became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Francis Scott Key Monument in Baltimore
subject linked to:
Francis Scott Key Monument in Baltimore
subject linked to:
Francis Scott Key Monument in Baltimore
subject linked to:
Terra Rubra, Maryland
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
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genreOfAssociatedPerson
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Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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linked to: Francis Scott Key
subject linked to:
her daughter Caroline Pickersgill