Henry Weber (trapper)
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Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Weber (trapper) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8849568 — 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: Henry Weber (trapper) Context triple: [Weber River, namedAfter, Henry Weber (trapper)]
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A.
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
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B.
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film about a reclusive mountain man surviving in the Rocky Mountains, starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack.
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C.
Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass was a 19th-century American frontiersman and fur trapper famed for surviving a brutal grizzly bear attack and an arduous journey of hundreds of miles to safety.
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D.
George Donner
George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
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E.
Jedediah Smith
Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
- 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: Henry Weber (trapper) Target entity description: Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
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A.
Jim Bridger
Jim Bridger was a famed 19th-century American mountain man, explorer, and fur trapper known for his extensive knowledge of the Western frontier.
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B.
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American Western film about a reclusive mountain man surviving in the Rocky Mountains, starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack.
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C.
Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass was a 19th-century American frontiersman and fur trapper famed for surviving a brutal grizzly bear attack and an arduous journey of hundreds of miles to safety.
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D.
George Donner
George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
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E.
Jedediah Smith
Jedediah Smith was a 19th-century American frontiersman, trapper, and explorer renowned for pioneering overland routes through the Rocky Mountains and the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
trapper ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Utah ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableEponym | Weber River ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Utah ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henry Weber (trapper) ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the namesake of the Weber River in Utah ⓘ |
| occupation |
frontiersman
ⓘ
trapper ⓘ |
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: Henry Weber (trapper) Description of subject: Henry Weber was a 19th-century trapper and frontiersman after whom Utah’s Weber River is named.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Henry Weber (trapper)