Charles J. Guiteau
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Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles J. Guiteau canonical | 17 |
| Charles Julius Guiteau | 2 |
| Charles Guiteau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T784505 — 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: Charles J. Guiteau Context triple: [James A. Garfield, assassinatedBy, Charles J. Guiteau]
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A.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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B.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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C.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
John Bellingham
John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
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E.
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
- 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: Charles J. Guiteau Target entity description: Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
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A.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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B.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor and Confederate sympathizer best known for assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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C.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
John Bellingham
John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
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E.
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Charles J. Guiteau Description of subject: Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Charles J. Guiteau
linked to: Charles J. Guiteau