Samuel Beatty Wilson
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Samuel Beatty Wilson was an American lawyer and educator best known as one of the principal founders and early leaders of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Beatty Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6882302 — 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: Samuel Beatty Wilson Context triple: [Phi Gamma Delta, hasFoundingMember, Samuel Beatty Wilson]
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A.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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B.
John H. Wilson
John H. Wilson was a business partner in the Wilson Brothers & Company firm, likely involved in its management and commercial operations.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
Wallace J. Benedict
Wallace J. Benedict was the husband of American lawyer and feminist activist Crystal Eastman.
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E.
Edwin T. Meredith
Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
- 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: Samuel Beatty Wilson Target entity description: Samuel Beatty Wilson was an American lawyer and educator best known as one of the principal founders and early leaders of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
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A.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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B.
John H. Wilson
John H. Wilson was a business partner in the Wilson Brothers & Company firm, likely involved in its management and commercial operations.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
Wallace J. Benedict
Wallace J. Benedict was the husband of American lawyer and feminist activist Crystal Eastman.
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E.
Edwin T. Meredith
Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
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fraternity founder ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Jefferson College
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Phi Gamma Delta fraternity ⓘ
linked to:
Phi Gamma Delta
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| coFounded | Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Jefferson College ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
law ⓘ |
| genre | fraternity organization leadership ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Wilson ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Beatty ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a principal founder of Phi Gamma Delta
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early leadership in Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| notableRole | principal founder of Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| notableWork | organizational structure of Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
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lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
first president of Phi Gamma Delta
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first president of the Ekklesia of Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ first secretary of Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ first treasurer of Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| 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: Samuel Beatty Wilson Description of subject: Samuel Beatty Wilson was an American lawyer and educator best known as one of the principal founders and early leaders of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.