James Harrod
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James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Harrod canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2824011 — 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: James Harrod Context triple: [Harrodsburg, Kentucky, namedAfter, James Harrod]
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A.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
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B.
John G. Smith
John G. Smith is a music producer best known for his work on the project or artist known as King of Stage.
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C.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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D.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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E.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
- 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: James Harrod Target entity description: James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
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A.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
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B.
John G. Smith
John G. Smith is a music producer best known for his work on the project or artist known as King of Stage.
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C.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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D.
Robert Folsom
Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
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E.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American pioneer
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city ⓘ founder of Harrodsburg ⓘ frontiersman ⓘ settler ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
early settler of Kentucky
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founder of the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| founded | Harrodsburg, Kentucky ⓘ |
| inception | 1774 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Harrodsburg, Kentucky
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leading early settlement in Kentucky ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kentucky
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| movement | westward expansion of the United States ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Harrod ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
established a permanent English settlement at Harrodsburg
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led a group of settlers into Kentucky in the 1770s ⓘ |
| notableWork | establishment of Harrodsburg settlement ⓘ |
| occupation |
explorer
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pioneer ⓘ settler ⓘ |
| partOf | early settlement of Kentucky ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Harrodsburg, Kentucky
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Kentucky ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
American frontier
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Kentucky frontier ⓘ |
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: James Harrod Description of subject: James Harrod was an American pioneer and early settler credited with founding Harrodsburg, the first permanent English settlement in Kentucky.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.