Jedediah Smith
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Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jedediah Smith canonical | 6 |
| Jedediah Strong Smith | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4984543 — 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: Jedediah Smith Context triple: [South Pass, associatedWith, Jedediah Smith]
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A.
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
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B.
William S. Clark
William S. Clark was an American educator and agricultural scientist best known in Japan for inspiring students with the motto "Boys, be ambitious" during his tenure at Sapporo Agricultural College in the 19th century.
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C.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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D.
William A. Clark
William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
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E.
William Clark
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
- 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: Jedediah Smith Target entity description: Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
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A.
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
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B.
William S. Clark
William S. Clark was an American educator and agricultural scientist best known in Japan for inspiring students with the motto "Boys, be ambitious" during his tenure at Sapporo Agricultural College in the 19th century.
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C.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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D.
William A. Clark
William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
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E.
William Clark
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, and territorial governor best known as the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American frontiersman
ⓘ
explorer ⓘ fur trapper ⓘ person ⓘ |
| businessPartner |
Andrew Henry
ⓘ
David Edward Jackson ⓘ William H. Ashley ⓘ
linked to:
William Henry Ashley
William Sublette ⓘ
linked to:
William Lewis Sublette
|
| causeOfDeath | killed by Comanche warriors ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| coFounded | Smith, Jackson and Sublette ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1799-01-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1831-05-27 ⓘ |
| discoveredForAmericans | South Pass as a wagon route through the Rockies ⓘ |
| employer | Rocky Mountain Fur Company ⓘ |
| exploredRegion |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Great Basin ⓘ Oregon Country ⓘ Rocky Mountains ⓘ South Pass ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jedediah Strong Smith
ⓘ
linked to:
Jedediah Smith
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jedediah
ⓘ
linked to:
Jebediah
|
| hasEthnicBackground | Anglo-American ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being among the first Americans to cross the Sierra Nevada
ⓘ
being the first American to enter California overland from the east ⓘ exploration of the American West ⓘ exploring the Great Basin ⓘ exploring the Oregon Country ⓘ pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| legacy | considered one of the most important early American explorers of the West ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableJourney |
coastal trek from California to the Columbia River
ⓘ
crossing of the Mojave Desert ⓘ overland expedition from the Great Salt Lake to California ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartographer
ⓘ
explorer ⓘ frontiersman ⓘ fur trapper ⓘ |
| participatedIn | fur trade in the Rocky Mountains ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bainbridge, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near the Cimarron River, present-day Kansas ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| survivedEvent | grizzly bear attack in 1824 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jedediah Smith Description of subject: Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.