Robert Waterman
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Robert Waterman was the 17th governor of California, serving from 1887 to 1891 after previously working as a businessman and politician.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Waterman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T244923 — 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: Robert Waterman Context triple: [California Governor's Mansion, hasResidentGovernor, Robert Waterman]
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A.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Arthur Edeson
Arthur Edeson was a pioneering American cinematographer best known for his influential work on classic films such as "Casablanca," "Frankenstein," and "The Maltese Falcon."
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C.
Robert Hodgen
Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
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D.
Robert Hinde
Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
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E.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
- 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: Robert Waterman Target entity description: Robert Waterman was the 17th governor of California, serving from 1887 to 1891 after previously working as a businessman and politician.
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A.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Arthur Edeson
Arthur Edeson was a pioneering American cinematographer best known for his influential work on classic films such as "Casablanca," "Frankenstein," and "The Maltese Falcon."
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C.
Robert Hodgen
Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
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D.
Robert Hinde
Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
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E.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governed |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| hasRole | state governor ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the 17th governor of California ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeJurisdiction |
State of California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| ordinalInOffice | 17th Governor of California ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of California ⓘ |
| precededBy | George Stoneman ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| stateRepresented |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| succeededBy | Henry Markham ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1891 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1887 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Sacramento, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento
|
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: Robert Waterman Description of subject: Robert Waterman was the 17th governor of California, serving from 1887 to 1891 after previously working as a businessman and politician.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.