Jacob Donner
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Jacob Donner was a 19th-century American pioneer whose ill-fated overland migration to California helped give his name to the infamous Donner Party.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Donner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5297056 — 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: Jacob Donner Context triple: [Donner Party, namedAfter, Jacob Donner]
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A.
Samuel Diescher
Samuel Diescher was a prominent 19th-century civil and mechanical engineer known for designing several American inclines and industrial structures, particularly in Pittsburgh.
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B.
Michael Waldstein
Michael Waldstein is a Catholic theologian and scholar best known for his authoritative English translation and commentary on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
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C.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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D.
Michael Kozoll
Michael Kozoll is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the influential police drama series "Hill Street Blues."
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E.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
- 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: Jacob Donner Target entity description: Jacob Donner was a 19th-century American pioneer whose ill-fated overland migration to California helped give his name to the infamous Donner Party.
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A.
Samuel Diescher
Samuel Diescher was a prominent 19th-century civil and mechanical engineer known for designing several American inclines and industrial structures, particularly in Pittsburgh.
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B.
Michael Waldstein
Michael Waldstein is a Catholic theologian and scholar best known for his authoritative English translation and commentary on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
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C.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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D.
Michael Kozoll
Michael Kozoll is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the influential police drama series "Hill Street Blues."
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E.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American pioneer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | ill-fated journey to California ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Donner ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| hasRole |
overland migrant
ⓘ
pioneer ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | figure associated with American westward migration disasters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a member of the Donner family
ⓘ
participation in a failed wagon train to California ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement | Westward expansion in the United States ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jacob Donner ⓘ |
| nameGivesRiseTo | name of the Donner Party ⓘ |
| notableFor | Donner Party ⓘ |
| occupation | pioneer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | overland migration to California ⓘ |
| partOf | Donner family ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Jacob Donner Description of subject: Jacob Donner was a 19th-century American pioneer whose ill-fated overland migration to California helped give his name to the infamous Donner Party.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.