Edman
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Edman is a masculine given name most notably borne by Edman Spangler, a carpenter implicated in the conspiracy surrounding U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4394219 — 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: Edman Context triple: [Edman Spangler, givenName, Edman]
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A.
Sanger
Sanger is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known for its agricultural economy and proximity to Fresno.
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B.
Eschenmoser
Eschenmoser is a Swiss surname most notably associated with Albert Eschenmoser, a prominent organic chemist known for his pioneering work in the synthesis of complex natural products and studies on the origin of life.
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C.
Redfield
Redfield is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
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D.
Flemming
Flemming is a surname and given name of Germanic origin, used by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, arts, and science.
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E.
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in DNA sequencing and gene regulation.
- 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: Edman Target entity description: Edman is a masculine given name most notably borne by Edman Spangler, a carpenter implicated in the conspiracy surrounding U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
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A.
Sanger
Sanger is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known for its agricultural economy and proximity to Fresno.
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B.
Eschenmoser
Eschenmoser is a Swiss surname most notably associated with Albert Eschenmoser, a prominent organic chemist known for his pioneering work in the synthesis of complex natural products and studies on the origin of life.
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C.
Redfield
Redfield is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
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D.
Flemming
Flemming is a surname and given name of Germanic origin, used by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, arts, and science.
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E.
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in DNA sequencing and gene regulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
assassination
ⓘ
given name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Abraham Lincoln assassination ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Spangler ⓘ |
| givenName | Edman ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasVictim | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Edman Spangler ⓘ |
| notableFor | implication in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| occupation | carpenter ⓘ |
| participantIn | conspiracy surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1865 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the United States ⓘ |
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: Edman Description of subject: Edman is a masculine given name most notably borne by Edman Spangler, a carpenter implicated in the conspiracy surrounding U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Edman Spangler – stagehand who assisted Booth at Ford’s Theatre