Polk
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Polk is a surname most prominently associated with James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3014786 — 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: Polk Context triple: [James K. Polk, familyName, Polk]
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A.
Adlai
Adlai is a masculine given name most notably associated with several generations of American politicians in the Stevenson family.
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B.
Johnson
Johnson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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C.
Howard
Howard is the given first name of Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki.
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D.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
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E.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- 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: Polk Target entity description: Polk is a surname most prominently associated with James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States.
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A.
Adlai
Adlai is a masculine given name most notably associated with several generations of American politicians in the Stevenson family.
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B.
Johnson
Johnson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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C.
Howard
Howard is the given first name of Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki.
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D.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
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E.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American history
ⓘ
United States politics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Charles Polk Jr.
ⓘ
Elias Polk ⓘ Finis E. Polk ⓘ James H. Polk ⓘ
linked to:
James K. Polk
James K. Polk ⓘ James Knox Polk ⓘ
linked to:
James K. Polk
John Polk ⓘ Leonidas Polk ⓘ Lucius E. Polk ⓘ Rufus King Polk ⓘ Sarah Childress Polk ⓘ Terry Polk ⓘ Trusten Polk ⓘ Wendell Polk ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Polk ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Polk(e)
ⓘ
linked to:
Polk
|
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scottish ⓘ |
| mostProminentlyAssociatedWith | James K. Polk ⓘ |
| occupation |
Confederate general
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
11th president of the United States
ⓘ
First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Polk Description of subject: Polk is a surname most prominently associated with James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Polk
subject linked to:
Polk
subject linked to:
The Fighting Bishop
subject linked to:
Mama Polk in American Horror Story: Roanoke
subject linked to:
Sarah