Thomas Clap
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Thomas Clap was an 18th-century American clergyman and academic who significantly shaped Yale College’s curriculum, governance, and early development as its long-serving president.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Clap canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5478643 — 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: Thomas Clap Context triple: [President of Yale University, hasHolder, Thomas Clap]
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A.
Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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B.
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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C.
William Brattle Jr.
William Brattle Jr. was a prominent colonial-era landowner and public figure in New England whose influence led to the Vermont town of Brattleboro being named in his honor.
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D.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Josiah Quincy I
Josiah Quincy I was an 18th-century Massachusetts merchant and prominent colonial political figure whose family became influential in early American public life.
- 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: Thomas Clap Target entity description: Thomas Clap was an 18th-century American clergyman and academic who significantly shaped Yale College’s curriculum, governance, and early development as its long-serving president.
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A.
Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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B.
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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C.
William Brattle Jr.
William Brattle Jr. was a prominent colonial-era landowner and public figure in New England whose influence led to the Vermont town of Brattleboro being named in his honor.
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D.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Josiah Quincy I
Josiah Quincy I was an 18th-century Massachusetts merchant and prominent colonial political figure whose family became influential in early American public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college president
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colonial United States
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Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1703-06-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1767-01-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
|
| employer | Yale College ⓘ |
| endTime | 1766 ⓘ |
| familyName | Clap ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
higher education administration
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theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Master of Arts ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early development of Yale College
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introducing scientific studies at Yale ⓘ reforming Yale College curriculum ⓘ strengthening Yale College governance ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Yale Corporation ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Annals or History of Yale-College ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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clergyman ⓘ college president ⓘ |
| partOf |
18th-century American academics
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18th-century American clergy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Scituate, Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Haven, Connecticut Colony ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of Yale College
ⓘ
Rector of Yale College ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence | New Haven, Connecticut Colony ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Whiting ⓘ |
| startTime | 1739 ⓘ |
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: Thomas Clap Description of subject: Thomas Clap was an 18th-century American clergyman and academic who significantly shaped Yale College’s curriculum, governance, and early development as its long-serving president.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.