Frederick Low
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Frederick Low was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California and later as U.S. Minister to China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frederick Low canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2743650 — 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: Frederick Low Context triple: [Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine, United States, hasNotableBurial, Frederick Low]
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A.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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B.
Frederick Gardner
Frederick Gardner was a mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of the higher summit of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus.
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C.
Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller was a 19th-century German-American brewer and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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D.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
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E.
Frederick Wallace Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
- 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: Frederick Low Target entity description: Frederick Low was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California and later as U.S. Minister to China.
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A.
Frederick Mills
Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
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B.
Frederick Gardner
Frederick Gardner was a mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of the higher summit of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus.
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C.
Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller was a 19th-century German-American brewer and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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D.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
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E.
Frederick Wallace Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and former CEO of FedEx Corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of California
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United States diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1828-06-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1894-07-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
China Academy (Maine) public schools
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linked to:
Maine Central Institute
|
| electedIn | United States House of Representatives elections, 1861 ⓘ |
| endTime |
1867 (term as Governor of California)
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1874 (service as U.S. Minister to China) ⓘ |
| familyName | Low ⓘ |
| givenName | Frederick ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as Governor of California during the American Civil War era
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service as United States Minister to China in the 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Frankfort, Maine, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Frankfort, Maine
|
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of California
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Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Minister to China ⓘ
linked to:
United States Ambassador
|
| represented | California in the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime |
1863 (term as Governor of California)
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1869 (service as U.S. Minister to China) ⓘ |
| workedAs |
banker
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merchant ⓘ |
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: Frederick Low Description of subject: Frederick Low was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of California and later as U.S. Minister to China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.