Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury)
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Richard Harrison was an early American government official who served as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7731453 — 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: Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury) Context triple: [Richard Harrison, saidToBeSameAs, Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury)]
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A.
Samuel Dexter (as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury)
Samuel Dexter was an American statesman and Federalist politician who briefly served as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President John Adams at the turn of the 19th century.
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B.
Albert Gallatin
Albert Gallatin was a prominent early American statesman and long-serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury known for reducing the national debt and helping shape the nation’s financial policy under Presidents Jefferson and Madison.
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C.
Albert Gallatin
Albert Gallatin was a 19th-century California businessman and politician who co-founded the hardware firm Huntington, Hopkins & Co. and originally built the residence later known as the California Governor's Mansion.
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D.
Harry Gallatin
Harry Gallatin was an American Basketball Hall of Famer known for his standout playing career with the New York Knicks and later success as an NBA head coach.
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E.
Chauncey Goodrich
Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer, politician, and lexicographer known for his work on early American dictionaries and his service in the U.S. Congress and as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
- 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: Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury) Target entity description: Richard Harrison was an early American government official who served as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
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A.
Samuel Dexter (as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury)
Samuel Dexter was an American statesman and Federalist politician who briefly served as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President John Adams at the turn of the 19th century.
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B.
Albert Gallatin
Albert Gallatin was a 19th-century California businessman and politician who co-founded the hardware firm Huntington, Hopkins & Co. and originally built the residence later known as the California Governor's Mansion.
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C.
Albert Gallatin
Albert Gallatin was a prominent early American statesman and long-serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury known for reducing the national debt and helping shape the nation’s financial policy under Presidents Jefferson and Madison.
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D.
Harry Gallatin
Harry Gallatin was an American Basketball Hall of Famer known for his standout playing career with the New York Knicks and later success as an NBA head coach.
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E.
Chauncey Goodrich
Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer, politician, and lexicographer known for his work on early American dictionaries and his service in the U.S. Congress and as lieutenant governor of Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American government official
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person ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
early United States government documents
ⓘ
historical records of the U.S. Treasury ⓘ |
| employer |
United States Department of the Treasury
ⓘ
United States federal government ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| familyName | Harrison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
ⓘ
public finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States Treasury
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of the Treasury
United States federal finances ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States civil service
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Civil Service
|
| notableFor | helping to establish the financial administration of the early United States ⓘ |
| officeContested | none known ⓘ |
| partOf | early United States Treasury leadership ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Comptroller of the United States Treasury
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linked to:
Comptroller of the Treasury
first Comptroller of the United States Treasury ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
implementation of early U.S. financial controls
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oversight of federal government accounts ⓘ |
| sharesOfficeWith |
Alexander Hamilton
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Oliver Wolcott Jr. ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| workPeriod |
early United States federal period
ⓘ
late 18th 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: Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury) Description of subject: Richard Harrison was an early American government official who served as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.