Matthias Ogden
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Matthias Ogden was an American Revolutionary War officer and early New Jersey political figure known for his service as a colonel in the Continental Army.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthias Ogden canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6709433 — 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: Matthias Ogden Context triple: [Aaron Ogden, relative, Matthias Ogden]
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A.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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B.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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C.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
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D.
Edward Hudson
Edward Hudson was an early 20th-century British magazine owner and art patron best known for commissioning architect Edwin Lutyens to remodel several historic properties, including Lindisfarne Castle.
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E.
Nathaniel Moran
Nathaniel Moran is a Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district.
- 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: Matthias Ogden Target entity description: Matthias Ogden was an American Revolutionary War officer and early New Jersey political figure known for his service as a colonel in the Continental Army.
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A.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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B.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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C.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
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D.
Edward Hudson
Edward Hudson was an early 20th-century British magazine owner and art patron best known for commissioning architect Edwin Lutyens to remodel several historic properties, including Lindisfarne Castle.
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E.
Nathaniel Moran
Nathaniel Moran is a Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Jersey politician
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony of New Jersey
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linked to:
Crown Colony of New Jersey
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
military leadership
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public service ⓘ |
| hasRole |
New Jersey political figure
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Revolutionary War officer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| movement |
American Revolution
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linked to:
American Revolutionary War
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| notableFor |
role as an early New Jersey political figure
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service as a colonel in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | colonel in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| residence |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
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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: Matthias Ogden Description of subject: Matthias Ogden was an American Revolutionary War officer and early New Jersey political figure known for his service as a colonel in the Continental Army.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.