Robert Lansing
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Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Lansing canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T626637 — 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 Lansing Context triple: [John Foster Dulles, relative, Robert Lansing]
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A.
Elihu Root
Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
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B.
Harold L. Ickes
Harold L. Ickes was a prominent New Deal-era U.S. politician who served as Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt and played a key role in implementing major public works and conservation programs.
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C.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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D.
Sumner Welles
Sumner Welles was an influential American diplomat and Under Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for shaping U.S. foreign policy during World War II and contributing to the early framework of the United Nations.
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E.
Thomas N. Margulis
Thomas N. Margulis is known primarily as the former husband of renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.
- 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 Lansing Target entity description: Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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A.
Elihu Root
Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
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B.
Harold L. Ickes
Harold L. Ickes was a prominent New Deal-era U.S. politician who served as Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt and played a key role in implementing major public works and conservation programs.
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C.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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D.
Sumner Welles
Sumner Welles was an influential American diplomat and Under Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for shaping U.S. foreign policy during World War II and contributing to the early framework of the United Nations.
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E.
Thomas N. Margulis
Thomas N. Margulis is known primarily as the former husband of renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Secretary of State
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Woodrow Wilson ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Watertown, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Watertown, New York
|
| causeOfDeath | heart-related illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1864-10-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1928-10-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Amherst College
ⓘ
Watertown High School (New York) ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of State ⓘ |
| endTime | 1920-02-13 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lansing ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | John Watson Foster ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
foreign policy of the United States
ⓘ
international arbitration ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Honorable ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSpecialty | international law ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
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linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Participation in early discussions related to the League of Nations
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Role in negotiating issues related to World War I ⓘ The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| officeContested | United States diplomacy during World War I ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Paris Peace Conference (indirectly, as part of Wilson administration)
ⓘ
linked to:
Paris Peace Conference
World War I diplomacy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Watertown, New York, United States
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linked to:
Watertown, New York
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| positionHeld |
Agent of the United States before international tribunals
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Counselor to the U.S. Department of State ⓘ United States Secretary of State ⓘ |
| precededBy | William Jennings Bryan ⓘ |
| relative | Frederic Lansing ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
Watertown, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Watertown, New York
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Eleanor Foster ⓘ |
| startTime | 1915-06-23 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Bainbridge Colby ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Lansing Description of subject: Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.