Guiteau
E391693
Guiteau is the surname of Charles J. Guiteau, the American lawyer and assassin who killed U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guiteau canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3808624 — 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: Guiteau Context triple: [Charles J. Guiteau, familyName, Guiteau]
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A.
The Delaplaine
The Delaplaine is a community-focused arts center in Frederick, Maryland, offering art exhibitions, classes, and cultural programs for all ages.
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B.
Chouteau
Chouteau is a French-origin surname notably associated with a prominent fur-trading and founding family in early St. Louis and the American Midwest.
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C.
Bressant
Bressant is a novel by American author Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his early works in 19th-century fiction.
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D.
Faison
Faison is a surname most notably associated with American actor and comedian Donald Faison.
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E.
Groseau
Groseau is a smaller watercourse in southeastern France that serves as a tributary feeding into the Ouvèze River.
- 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: Guiteau Target entity description: Guiteau is the surname of Charles J. Guiteau, the American lawyer and assassin who killed U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
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A.
The Delaplaine
The Delaplaine is a community-focused arts center in Frederick, Maryland, offering art exhibitions, classes, and cultural programs for all ages.
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B.
Chouteau
Chouteau is a French-origin surname notably associated with a prominent fur-trading and founding family in early St. Louis and the American Midwest.
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C.
Bressant
Bressant is a novel by American author Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his early works in 19th-century fiction.
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D.
Faison
Faison is a surname most notably associated with American actor and comedian Donald Faison.
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E.
Groseau
Groseau is a smaller watercourse in southeastern France that serves as a tributary feeding into the Ouvèze River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | assassination of James A. Garfield ⓘ |
| associatedWithYear | 1881 ⓘ |
| category |
French-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames of French origin ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation |
American legal history
ⓘ
history of U.S. presidential assassinations ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Charles J. Guiteau ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerFullName |
Charles Julius Guiteau
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles J. Guiteau
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| hasNotableBearerNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerRole |
assassin
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | Guitteau ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| linkedToPerson | James A. Garfield ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Guiteau Description of subject: Guiteau is the surname of Charles J. Guiteau, the American lawyer and assassin who killed U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.