Richard H. Garrett
E296778
Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard H. Garrett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1869714 — 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: Richard H. Garrett Context triple: [Garrett farm near Port Royal, Virginia, United States, ownerDuring1865, Richard H. Garrett]
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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C.
Richard H. Kline
Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including visually ambitious projects like the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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D.
Frederick W. Lander
Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
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E.
H. Craig Severance
H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
- 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: Richard H. Garrett Target entity description: Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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C.
Richard H. Kline
Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including visually ambitious projects like the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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D.
Frederick W. Lander
Frederick W. Lander was a 19th-century American civil engineer and explorer best known for surveying and constructing overland wagon routes to the western United States.
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E.
H. Craig Severance
H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farmer
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
capture of John Wilkes Booth
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death of John Wilkes Booth ⓘ manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
| barnOnPropertyUsedFor | final standoff of John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Abraham Lincoln
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John Wilkes Booth ⓘ Union Army ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
American Civil War aftermath
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Lincoln assassination manhunt ⓘ |
| historicalRole | civilian landowner in whose barn Booth was trapped ⓘ |
| inferredEthnicity | American white Southerner ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the owner of the farm where John Wilkes Booth was cornered in April 1865
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involvement in events following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| locationOfProperty | Garrett farm ⓘ |
| notableFor | ownership of the farm where John Wilkes Booth was captured and killed ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| owned |
Garrett farm
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rural property near Port Royal, Virginia ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | near Port Royal, Virginia ⓘ |
| propertyLocatedNear | Port Royal, Virginia ⓘ |
| propertyType |
farm
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rural property ⓘ |
| residence |
Caroline County, Virginia
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Virginia ⓘ |
| stateOfResidence | Virginia ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Richard H. Garrett Description of subject: Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.