Simon Perkins
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Simon Perkins was a prominent early 19th-century American surveyor, land agent, and businessman influential in the development of northeastern Ohio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Perkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8815444 — 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: Simon Perkins Context triple: [Perkins, hasNotableBearer, Simon Perkins]
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A.
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry is an American actor known for his roles in 1990s films such as "Empire Records," "Can't Hardly Wait," and various television series.
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B.
Iain De Caestecker
Iain De Caestecker is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Leo Fitz in the Marvel television series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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C.
Michael Kube-McDowell
Michael Kube-McDowell is an American science fiction author known for his novels, short stories, and contributions to major franchises such as Star Wars.
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D.
Joseph Eric Thornton
Joseph Eric Thornton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey center widely regarded as one of the greatest playmakers in NHL history, best known for his long tenures with the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks.
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E.
Nicholas Woodeson
Nicholas Woodeson is a British character actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Skyfall," "Rome," and "The Death of Stalin."
- 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: Simon Perkins Target entity description: Simon Perkins was a prominent early 19th-century American surveyor, land agent, and businessman influential in the development of northeastern Ohio.
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A.
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry is an American actor known for his roles in 1990s films such as "Empire Records," "Can't Hardly Wait," and various television series.
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B.
Iain De Caestecker
Iain De Caestecker is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Leo Fitz in the Marvel television series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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C.
Michael Kube-McDowell
Michael Kube-McDowell is an American science fiction author known for his novels, short stories, and contributions to major franchises such as Star Wars.
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D.
Joseph Eric Thornton
Joseph Eric Thornton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey center widely regarded as one of the greatest playmakers in NHL history, best known for his long tenures with the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks.
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E.
Nicholas Woodeson
Nicholas Woodeson is a British character actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Skyfall," "Rome," and "The Death of Stalin."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American surveyor
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businessman ⓘ land agent ⓘ person ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
19th century
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early 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Perkins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
land management
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land surveying ⓘ real estate development ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon ⓘ |
| influenced |
settlement patterns in the Western Reserve
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urban development in northeastern Ohio ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of northeastern Ohio
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early commercial development in Akron area ⓘ promoting settlement in the Western Reserve ⓘ |
| notableWork | surveying and managing lands in the Western Reserve ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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land agent ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Western Reserve (Ohio)
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linked to:
Connecticut Western Reserve
northeastern Ohio ⓘ
linked to:
Northeastern Ohio
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| positionHeld | land agent for the Connecticut Land Company ⓘ |
| residence |
Ohio
ⓘ
northeastern Ohio ⓘ
linked to:
Northeastern Ohio
|
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: Simon Perkins Description of subject: Simon Perkins was a prominent early 19th-century American surveyor, land agent, and businessman influential in the development of northeastern Ohio.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.