William Quan Judge
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William Quan Judge was an Irish-American mystic, writer, and lawyer who played a key role in establishing and spreading the modern Theosophical movement in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Quan Judge canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3494121 — 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: William Quan Judge Context triple: [Theosophy, coFoundedBy, William Quan Judge]
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Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
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B.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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C.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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D.
Franklin H. Martin
Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
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E.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
- 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: William Quan Judge Target entity description: William Quan Judge was an Irish-American mystic, writer, and lawyer who played a key role in establishing and spreading the modern Theosophical movement in the late 19th century.
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A.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
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B.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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C.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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D.
Franklin H. Martin
Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
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E.
John Boies Tileston
John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: William Quan Judge Description of subject: William Quan Judge was an Irish-American mystic, writer, and lawyer who played a key role in establishing and spreading the modern Theosophical movement in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.