Dangerfield Newby
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Dangerfield Newby was a formerly enslaved man who joined abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry in a desperate attempt to free his wife and children from slavery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dangerfield Newby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2474295 — 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: Dangerfield Newby Context triple: [John Brown’s raid of 1859, notableParticipant, Dangerfield Newby]
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A.
James Burrough
James Burrough was an 18th-century English architect and academic at the University of Cambridge, known for helping shape the university’s neoclassical architectural style.
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B.
Philip Mannering
Philip Mannering is one of the main child protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "Adventure" series, known for his bravery, leadership, and love of animals.
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C.
Walter Baker
Walter Baker is a notable individual whose name is associated with various historical and professional contexts, including business and public service.
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D.
Edwin Craye
Edwin Craye is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster universe, appearing in the novel "Joy in the Morning."
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E.
Sidney Wicks
Sidney Wicks is a former American professional basketball player, best known as a four-time NBA All-Star forward in the 1970s, primarily with the Portland Trail Blazers.
- 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: Dangerfield Newby Target entity description: Dangerfield Newby was a formerly enslaved man who joined abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry in a desperate attempt to free his wife and children from slavery.
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A.
James Burrough
James Burrough was an 18th-century English architect and academic at the University of Cambridge, known for helping shape the university’s neoclassical architectural style.
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B.
Philip Mannering
Philip Mannering is one of the main child protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "Adventure" series, known for his bravery, leadership, and love of animals.
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C.
Walter Baker
Walter Baker is a notable individual whose name is associated with various historical and professional contexts, including business and public service.
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D.
Edwin Craye
Edwin Craye is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster universe, appearing in the novel "Joy in the Morning."
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E.
Sidney Wicks
Sidney Wicks is a former American professional basketball player, best known as a four-time NBA All-Star forward in the 1970s, primarily with the Portland Trail Blazers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abolitionist
ⓘ
freedom fighter ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | John Brown ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Harpers Ferry area (unmarked or disputed grave) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| correspondence | letters from his enslaved wife pleading for rescue ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfDeath | 1859-10-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
historical accounts of John Brown’s raid
ⓘ
scholarship on African American resistance to slavery ⓘ |
| formerStatus | enslaved man ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hadChildren | true ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Antebellum United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Antebellum period
|
| killedBy | local militia at Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| knownFor | attempt to free his enslaved wife and children ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of enslaved people’s direct resistance to slavery ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| motivation | to free his enslaved wife and children ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death during the initial fighting of the Harpers Ferry raid ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
| occupation | blacksmith ⓘ |
| opposedTo | slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Harpers Ferry raid of 1859
ⓘ
linked to:
John Brown’s raid of 1859
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry ⓘ
linked to:
John Brown’s raid of 1859
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| placeOfDeath |
Harpers Ferry, Virginia
ⓘ
linked to:
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
|
| race | Black ⓘ |
| spouse | Harriet Newby ⓘ |
| wasEnslaved | true ⓘ |
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: Dangerfield Newby Description of subject: Dangerfield Newby was a formerly enslaved man who joined abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry in a desperate attempt to free his wife and children from slavery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.