William Bingham
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William Bingham was a member of the prominent Bingham family of New England missionaries and public figures, active in the 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Bingham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11725612 — 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: William Bingham Context triple: [Hiram Bingham I, child, William Bingham]
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A.
William Bingham
William Bingham was an American statesman and wealthy Federalist politician from Pennsylvania who served as a U.S. senator in the early years of the United States.
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B.
William Ellery
William Ellery was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.
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C.
Franklin Birch
Franklin Birch is a central character in the 2013 thriller film "Prisoners," portrayed as a troubled young man suspected of involvement in the disappearance of two girls.
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D.
John Romeyn Brodhead
John Romeyn Brodhead was a 19th-century American historian and archivist best known for collecting and publishing early documents on the colonial history of New York.
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E.
William Preston
William Preston was a notable figure significant enough in regional or local history that the town of Preston, Georgia, was named in his honor.
- 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: William Bingham Target entity description: William Bingham was a member of the prominent Bingham family of New England missionaries and public figures, active in the 19th century.
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A.
William Bingham
William Bingham was an American statesman and wealthy Federalist politician from Pennsylvania who served as a U.S. senator in the early years of the United States.
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B.
William Ellery
William Ellery was an American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.
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C.
Franklin Birch
Franklin Birch is a central character in the 2013 thriller film "Prisoners," portrayed as a troubled young man suspected of involvement in the disappearance of two girls.
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D.
John Romeyn Brodhead
John Romeyn Brodhead was a 19th-century American historian and archivist best known for collecting and publishing early documents on the colonial history of New York.
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E.
William Preston
William Preston was a notable figure significant enough in regional or local history that the town of Preston, Georgia, was named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Bingham ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | New England ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | missionary ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Hiram Bingham I
ⓘ
Hiram Bingham II ⓘ
linked to:
Hiram Bingham I
Hiram Bingham III ⓘ
linked to:
Hiram Bingham
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| hasReligion |
Congregationalism
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bingham family ⓘ |
| notableFamilyRole | member of prominent missionary and public-service family in New England ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with New England missionary family ⓘ |
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: William Bingham Description of subject: William Bingham was a member of the prominent Bingham family of New England missionaries and public figures, active in the 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.