James Markham Marshall
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James Markham Marshall was an American lawyer and jurist who briefly served as a United States federal judge in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Markham Marshall canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4183559 — 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 Markham Marshall Context triple: [Thomas Marshall, child, James Markham Marshall]
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A.
Charles Henry Marshall
Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
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B.
Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist best known for helping lead the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark protest in the Red Power movement.
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C.
David Marvin Blake
David Marvin Blake is an American rapper, DJ, and record producer best known by his stage name DJ Quik, a prominent figure in West Coast hip hop.
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D.
Frank Armstrong Crawford
Frank Armstrong Crawford was a 19th-century American philanthropist best known as the second wife of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and a major benefactor of Vanderbilt University.
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E.
Henry Lawrence Kinney
Henry Lawrence Kinney was a 19th-century American entrepreneur, politician, and adventurer best known for establishing the settlement that became Corpus Christi, Texas.
- 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 Markham Marshall Target entity description: James Markham Marshall was an American lawyer and jurist who briefly served as a United States federal judge in the early 19th century.
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A.
Charles Henry Marshall
Charles Henry Marshall was an American businessman and member of New York high society, best known as the first husband of philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor.
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B.
Richard Oakes
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk Native American activist best known for helping lead the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark protest in the Red Power movement.
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C.
David Marvin Blake
David Marvin Blake is an American rapper, DJ, and record producer best known by his stage name DJ Quik, a prominent figure in West Coast hip hop.
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D.
Frank Armstrong Crawford
Frank Armstrong Crawford was a 19th-century American philanthropist best known as the second wife of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and a major benefactor of Vanderbilt University.
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E.
Henry Lawrence Kinney
Henry Lawrence Kinney was a 19th-century American entrepreneur, politician, and adventurer best known for establishing the settlement that became Corpus Christi, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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United States federal judge ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Marshall ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| notableFor | brief service as a United States federal judge in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Judge of a United States federal court ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Markham Marshall Description of subject: James Markham Marshall was an American lawyer and jurist who briefly served as a United States federal judge in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.