Rufus King
E104722
American politician
Founding Father of the United States
United States senator
diplomat
human
lawyer
Rufus King was an American Founding Father, statesman, and diplomat who served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a longtime U.S. senator from New York.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rufus King canonical | 9 |
| American envoy John Marshall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723666 — 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: Rufus King Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, Rufus King]
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A.
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
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B.
Edmund Randolph
Edmund Randolph was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the first U.S. Attorney General and played a key role in drafting and debating the U.S. Constitution.
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C.
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman was an American Founding Father, statesman, and lawyer who uniquely signed all four of the major founding documents of the United States.
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D.
Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry was an American Founding Father, statesman, and fifth vice president of the United States, best known for inspiring the term "gerrymandering" through a controversial redistricting plan he approved as governor of Massachusetts.
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E.
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth was an American Founding Father, influential framer of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
- 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: Rufus King Target entity description: Rufus King was an American Founding Father, statesman, and diplomat who served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a longtime U.S. senator from New York.
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A.
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who played a key role in drafting and penning much of the final text of the United States Constitution.
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B.
Edmund Randolph
Edmund Randolph was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the first U.S. Attorney General and played a key role in drafting and debating the U.S. Constitution.
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C.
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman was an American Founding Father, statesman, and lawyer who uniquely signed all four of the major founding documents of the United States.
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D.
Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry was an American Founding Father, statesman, and fifth vice president of the United States, best known for inspiring the term "gerrymandering" through a controversial redistricting plan he approved as governor of Massachusetts.
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E.
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth was an American Founding Father, influential framer of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Founding Father of the United States ⓘ United States senator ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| advocatedFor | strong central government ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Grace Church Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, New York ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | United States presidential election, 1816 ⓘ |
| child |
Charles King
ⓘ
John Alsop King ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Great Britain
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | British America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1755-03-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1827-04-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Dummer Academy
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
|
| familyName | King ⓘ |
| givenName | Rufus ⓘ |
| hasHonor | King Manor Museum named in his honor ⓘ |
| knownFor | opposition to the expansion of slavery ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Federalists
ⓘ
surface form:
Federalist Party
United States Senate ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | President of the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork | Signatory of the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| partyPresidentialNomineeOf |
Federalists
ⓘ
surface form:
Federalist Party
|
| placeOfBirth |
Scarborough, Maine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scarborough, Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Jamaica, Queens
ⓘ
surface form:
Jamaica, Queens, New York
|
| positionHeld |
Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation
ⓘ
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention ⓘ Delegate to the Continental Congress ⓘ United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United States Minister to Great Britain
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United States Minister to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United States Senator from New York ⓘ United States presidential candidate ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| represented |
Massachusetts
ⓘ
New York ⓘ |
| residence |
Jamaica, Queens
ⓘ
surface form:
Jamaica, Queens, New York
King Manor, Jamaica, Queens, New York ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | United States Constitution ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Alsop ⓘ |
| termEnd |
1796-05-23
ⓘ
1819-03-03 ⓘ 1825-03-03 ⓘ |
| termStart |
1789-07-16
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1813-03-04 ⓘ 1820-03-04 ⓘ |
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: Rufus King Description of subject: Rufus King was an American Founding Father, statesman, and diplomat who served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a longtime U.S. senator from New York.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American envoy John Marshall