Henry Samson
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Henry Samson was a young passenger on the Mayflower who later became a settler in Plymouth Colony in early 17th-century New England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Samson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2529305 — 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: Henry Samson Context triple: [Edward Tilley, traveledWith, Henry Samson]
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A.
Henry Pilger
Henry Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
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B.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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C.
Henry Willis
Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
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D.
Samuel Barnes
Samuel Barnes is an author known for his work with the Juicy brand.
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E.
Charles Rumney Samson
Charles Rumney Samson was a pioneering British naval aviator and Royal Navy officer known for early shipboard aviation experiments and combat flying during World War I.
- 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: Henry Samson Target entity description: Henry Samson was a young passenger on the Mayflower who later became a settler in Plymouth Colony in early 17th-century New England.
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A.
Henry Pilger
Henry Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
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B.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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C.
Henry Willis
Henry Willis was a businessman best known for establishing Willis Group Holdings, a major global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
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D.
Samuel Barnes
Samuel Barnes is an author known for his work with the Juicy brand.
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E.
Charles Rumney Samson
Charles Rumney Samson was a pioneering British naval aviator and Royal Navy officer known for early shipboard aviation experiments and combat flying during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Henry Samson Description of subject: Henry Samson was a young passenger on the Mayflower who later became a settler in Plymouth Colony in early 17th-century New England.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.