Harold Sewall
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Harold Sewall was an American diplomat and politician from Maine who served as U.S. Minister to Hawaii during the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold Sewall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3887586 — 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: Harold Sewall Context triple: [Sewall, hasNotableBearer, Harold Sewall]
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A.
Harold M. Shaw
Harold M. Shaw was an early American film director and actor known for his pioneering work in silent cinema during the 1910s.
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B.
Harold T. Clark
Harold T. Clark was an American lawyer and philanthropist from Cleveland known for his significant contributions to civic and cultural institutions, including helping establish the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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C.
Ralph B. Lloyd
Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
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D.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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E.
Harold Huth
Harold Huth was a British film director, producer, and occasional actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his work in the British studio system.
- 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: Harold Sewall Target entity description: Harold Sewall was an American diplomat and politician from Maine who served as U.S. Minister to Hawaii during the late 19th century.
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A.
Harold M. Shaw
Harold M. Shaw was an early American film director and actor known for his pioneering work in silent cinema during the 1910s.
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B.
Harold T. Clark
Harold T. Clark was an American lawyer and philanthropist from Cleveland known for his significant contributions to civic and cultural institutions, including helping establish the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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C.
Ralph B. Lloyd
Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
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D.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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E.
Harold Huth
Harold Huth was a British film director, producer, and occasional actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his work in the British studio system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American diplomat
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American politician ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of State ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
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politics ⓘ |
| genre |
diplomatic activity
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political activity ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| isFrom | Maine ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in late 19th-century U.S.–Hawaii relations ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as U.S. Minister to Hawaii ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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politician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Hawaii
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Maine ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
U.S. Minister to Hawaii
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United States Minister to Hawaii ⓘ |
| residence | Maine ⓘ |
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: Harold Sewall Description of subject: Harold Sewall was an American diplomat and politician from Maine who served as U.S. Minister to Hawaii during the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.