Persifor F. Smith
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Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Persifor F. Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8354876 — 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: Persifor F. Smith Context triple: [Military Governor of California, firstHolder, Persifor F. Smith]
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A.
Augustus W. Robins
Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
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B.
Jeptha H. Wade
Jeptha H. Wade was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known as a founder of Western Union and a key civic benefactor in Cleveland, Ohio.
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C.
Samuel M. Ralston
Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
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D.
Samuel S. Hinds
Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
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E.
Lafayette C. Baker
Lafayette C. Baker was a Union spy and detective who served as chief of the National Detective Police during the American Civil War and played a key role in the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
- 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: Persifor F. Smith Target entity description: Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
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A.
Augustus W. Robins
Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
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B.
Jeptha H. Wade
Jeptha H. Wade was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist best known as a founder of Western Union and a key civic benefactor in Cleveland, Ohio.
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C.
Samuel M. Ralston
Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
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D.
Samuel S. Hinds
Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
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E.
Lafayette C. Baker
Lafayette C. Baker was a Union spy and detective who served as chief of the National Detective Police during the American Civil War and played a key role in the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict | Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Persifor ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
administration of newly acquired western U.S. territories in the 19th century
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service in the Mexican–American War ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | military administrator in western territories of the United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Persifor F. Smith Description of subject: Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.