Charles Stillman
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Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Stillman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1751401 — 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: Charles Stillman Context triple: [American Federation of Teachers, foundedBy, Charles Stillman]
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A.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
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B.
Walter Pitman
Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
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C.
Hudson Stuck
Hudson Stuck was an Anglican archdeacon, missionary, and mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of Denali in 1913.
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D.
Victor Maynard
Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
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E.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
- 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: Charles Stillman Target entity description: Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
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A.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
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B.
Walter Pitman
Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
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C.
Hudson Stuck
Hudson Stuck was an Anglican archdeacon, missionary, and mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of Denali in 1913.
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D.
Victor Maynard
Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
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E.
Andrew Heiskell
Andrew Heiskell was an American publishing executive and philanthropist best known as a longtime leader of Time Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s cultural and civic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
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human ⓘ labor leader ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ |
| affiliation | American Federation of Teachers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
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labor movement ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | role in the founding of the American Federation of Teachers ⓘ |
| movement | teachers’ union movement in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork | helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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labor leader ⓘ |
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: Charles Stillman Description of subject: Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.