Elias B. Fish
E437987
Elias B. Fish was a United States government official who served as a federal customs administrator in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elias B. Fish canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4408175 — 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: Elias B. Fish Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Elias B. Fish]
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A.
Robert H. Treman
Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
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B.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
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C.
Benjamin Ely
Benjamin Ely was an influential figure whose ideas and work helped shape the thought and career of educator and women's education pioneer Sophia Smith.
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D.
John Swope
John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
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E.
Lewis Tappan
Lewis Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and businessman who played a key role in the anti-slavery movement and in supporting the legal defense of the Amistad captives.
- 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: Elias B. Fish Target entity description: Elias B. Fish was a United States government official who served as a federal customs administrator in New York City.
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A.
Robert H. Treman
Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
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B.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
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C.
Benjamin Ely
Benjamin Ely was an influential figure whose ideas and work helped shape the thought and career of educator and women's education pioneer Sophia Smith.
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D.
John Swope
John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
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E.
Lewis Tappan
Lewis Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and businessman who played a key role in the anti-slavery movement and in supporting the legal defense of the Amistad captives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States government official
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| fieldOfWork |
customs administration
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ |
| occupation |
customs administrator
ⓘ
government official ⓘ |
| positionHeld | federal customs administrator ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Elias B. Fish Description of subject: Elias B. Fish was a United States government official who served as a federal customs administrator in New York City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.