Samuel Williston
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Samuel Williston was a prominent American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor best known for his influential treatises on contract law and his role in shaping modern American legal doctrine.
All labels observed (1)
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| Samuel Williston canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2715917 — 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: Samuel Williston Context triple: [American Law Institute, foundedBy, Samuel Williston]
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John Jay Shipherd
John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
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John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
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C.
John P. Hale
John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
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D.
William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
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E.
Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- 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: Samuel Williston Target entity description: Samuel Williston was a prominent American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor best known for his influential treatises on contract law and his role in shaping modern American legal doctrine.
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A.
John Jay Shipherd
John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
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B.
John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
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C.
John P. Hale
John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
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D.
William De Witt
William De Witt is a personal name borne by various individuals, most commonly associated with people of Dutch or American heritage.
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E.
Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Samuel Williston Description of subject: Samuel Williston was a prominent American legal scholar and Harvard Law School professor best known for his influential treatises on contract law and his role in shaping modern American legal doctrine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.