Samuel Spencer
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Samuel Spencer was a prominent North Carolina jurist and Revolutionary-era political leader known for his influential Anti-Federalist stance during debates over the U.S. Constitution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Spencer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7149844 — 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: Samuel Spencer Context triple: [Hillsborough Convention of 1788, notableAntiFederalistDelegate, Samuel Spencer]
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A.
Samuel Spencer
Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
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B.
Samuel Lester
Samuel Lester is the full given name of Les Snead, the American football executive best known as the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
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C.
Samuel Black
Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
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D.
Samuel Russell
Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
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E.
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray was an American sculptor known for his public monuments and portrait statues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Samuel Spencer Target entity description: Samuel Spencer was a prominent North Carolina jurist and Revolutionary-era political leader known for his influential Anti-Federalist stance during debates over the U.S. Constitution.
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A.
Samuel Spencer
Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
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B.
Samuel Lester
Samuel Lester is the full given name of Les Snead, the American football executive best known as the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
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C.
Samuel Black
Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
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D.
Samuel Russell
Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
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E.
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray was an American sculptor known for his public monuments and portrait statues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anti-Federalist
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ person ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
North Carolina (then a U.S. state)
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linked to:
North Carolina
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists ⓘ |
| familyName | Spencer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential Anti-Federalist stance
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leadership in Revolutionary-era North Carolina politics ⓘ role as a North Carolina jurist ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Anti-Federalist advocacy during debates over the U.S. Constitution ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary era politics
ⓘ
debates over the ratification of the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | North Carolina ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Anti-Federalist
ⓘ
linked to:
Anti-Federalists
|
| positionHeld |
Revolutionary-era political leader in North Carolina
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judge ⓘ jurist in North Carolina ⓘ |
| residence | North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Samuel Spencer Description of subject: Samuel Spencer was a prominent North Carolina jurist and Revolutionary-era political leader known for his influential Anti-Federalist stance during debates over the U.S. Constitution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.