Philip Livingston
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Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philip Livingston canonical | 9 |
| Philip Livingston Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T842528 — 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: Philip Livingston Context triple: [Trinity Church Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, Philip Livingston]
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A.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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B.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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D.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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E.
William Franklin
William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
- 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: Philip Livingston Target entity description: Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
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A.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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B.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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C.
Henry Laurens
Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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D.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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E.
William Franklin
William Franklin was the Loyalist last colonial governor of New Jersey and the illegitimate son of American statesman Benjamin Franklin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Founding Father of the United States
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human ⓘ signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
import trade
ⓘ
real estate investment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1716-01-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1778-06-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale College ⓘ |
| era | American Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch American ⓘ |
| familyName | Livingston ⓘ |
| father |
Philip Livingston
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Philip Livingston Sr.
|
| floruit | 18th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Philip ⓘ |
| hasPartInHistory |
American Revolutionary era
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolution
|
| knownFor | signing the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| memberOf | Livingston family ⓘ |
| mother | Catharina Van Brugh ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
service in the New York Provincial Congress
ⓘ
service in the New York State Senate ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Robert R. Livingston
ⓘ
William Livingston ⓘ |
| notableWork | advocacy for American independence ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
First Continental Congress
ⓘ
Second Continental Congress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Albany
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, Province of New York
|
| placeOfDeath | York, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Patriot cause in the American Revolution ⓘ |
| politicalTerritoryRepresented | Province of New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
delegate to the Continental Congress
ⓘ
member of the New York Provincial Congress ⓘ member of the New York State Senate ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| represented | New York ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Robert Livingston the Elder
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surface form:
Robert Livingston
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| significantEvent | signed the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Philip Livingston Description of subject: Philip Livingston was an American merchant and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New York.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Livingston family
this entity surface form:
Philip Livingston Sr.