Nelson K. Hopkins
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Nelson K. Hopkins was a 19th-century New York politician best known for his role in overseeing the state's canal system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nelson K. Hopkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7622634 — 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: Nelson K. Hopkins Context triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, Nelson K. Hopkins]
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A.
Maurice R. Robinson
Maurice R. Robinson was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Scholastic, a major global children’s publishing and education company.
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B.
Kenneth L. Bowles
Kenneth L. Bowles was an American computer scientist and educator best known for his pioneering work in software systems and programming environments at the University of California, San Diego.
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C.
Alonzo W. Rollins
Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
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D.
Eugene S. Robbins
Eugene S. Robbins was a prominent local figure after whom the village of Robbins, Illinois, was named, likely due to his significant role in its founding or development.
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E.
Dennis C. Brown
Dennis C. Brown is a television and film composer best known for scoring the long-running animated series "South Park."
- 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: Nelson K. Hopkins Target entity description: Nelson K. Hopkins was a 19th-century New York politician best known for his role in overseeing the state's canal system.
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A.
Maurice R. Robinson
Maurice R. Robinson was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Scholastic, a major global children’s publishing and education company.
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B.
Kenneth L. Bowles
Kenneth L. Bowles was an American computer scientist and educator best known for his pioneering work in software systems and programming environments at the University of California, San Diego.
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C.
Alonzo W. Rollins
Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
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D.
Eugene S. Robbins
Eugene S. Robbins was a prominent local figure after whom the village of Robbins, Illinois, was named, likely due to his significant role in its founding or development.
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E.
Dennis C. Brown
Dennis C. Brown is a television and film composer best known for scoring the long-running animated series "South Park."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York State politician
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopkins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
infrastructure administration
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public finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Nelson ⓘ |
| notableFor | oversight of the New York State canal system ⓘ |
| notableRole | oversight of state canals in New York ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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public administrator ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | state-level politics in New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
New York State Comptroller
ⓘ
linked to:
Comptroller of New York
canal commissioner of New York ⓘ member of the New York State Assembly ⓘ |
| residence | New York State ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York ⓘ |
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: Nelson K. Hopkins Description of subject: Nelson K. Hopkins was a 19th-century New York politician best known for his role in overseeing the state's canal system.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.