William M. Ingraham
E661882
William M. Ingraham was an American government official who served in the U.S. War Department during the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William M. Ingraham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4219310 — 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: William M. Ingraham Context triple: [Assistant Secretary of War, officeHeldBy, William M. Ingraham]
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A.
James W. Forsyth
James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
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B.
James T. Grady
James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
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C.
Melville M. Bigelow
Melville M. Bigelow was an influential American legal scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in tort law and legal history.
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D.
Azariah C. Flagg
Azariah C. Flagg was a 19th-century New York politician and reformer who served in several key state offices and became a prominent figure in the anti-corruption, anti-slavery Barnburner wing of the Democratic Party.
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E.
Samuel D. Ingham
Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
- 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: William M. Ingraham Target entity description: William M. Ingraham was an American government official who served in the U.S. War Department during the early 20th century.
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A.
James W. Forsyth
James W. Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry general best known for commanding the 7th Cavalry during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
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B.
James T. Grady
James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
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C.
Melville M. Bigelow
Melville M. Bigelow was an influential American legal scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in tort law and legal history.
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D.
Azariah C. Flagg
Azariah C. Flagg was a 19th-century New York politician and reformer who served in several key state offices and became a prominent figure in the anti-corruption, anti-slavery Barnburner wing of the Democratic Party.
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E.
Samuel D. Ingham
Samuel D. Ingham was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
government official
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of War ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military administration
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public administration ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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government official ⓘ |
| positionHeld | official in the U.S. War Department ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: William M. Ingraham Description of subject: William M. Ingraham was an American government official who served in the U.S. War Department during the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.