James Blair
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James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Blair canonical | 5 |
| James Blair (clergyman) | 1 |
| James Blair II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T850408 — 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.
Target entity: James Blair Context triple: [University of Aberdeen, hasNotableAlumni, James Blair]
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A.
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
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Robert Morris
Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
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C.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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D.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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E.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a pioneering British-American architect often regarded as the father of American architecture, known for his influential work on the United States Capitol and other early federal buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: James Blair Target entity description: James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
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A.
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
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B.
Robert Morris
Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
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C.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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D.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
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E.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a pioneering British-American architect often regarded as the father of American architecture, known for his influential work on the United States Capitol and other early federal buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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clergyman ⓘ educator ⓘ founder ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 18th century
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late 17th century ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1656-01-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Edinburgh
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Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Great Britain
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Kingdom of England ⓘ Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
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surface form:
Colony of Virginia
Great Britain ⓘ Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1743-04-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
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surface form:
Colony of Virginia
Williamsburg ⓘ
surface form:
Williamsburg, Virginia
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| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Edinburgh
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University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| familyName | Blair ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
higher education
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religious education ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| founded | College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| founder | James Blair self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre | sermon ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
Reverend
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The Reverend ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the College of William & Mary
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serving as first president of the College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Church of England ⓘ |
| notableWork | Our Saviour’s Divine Sermon on the Mount Explained ⓘ |
| occupation |
Anglican priest
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college president ⓘ educator ⓘ missionary ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commissary to the Bishop of London in Virginia
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President of the College of William & Mary ⓘ Rector of Bruton Parish Church ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Jamestown
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surface form:
Jamestown, Virginia
Williamsburg ⓘ
surface form:
Williamsburg, Virginia
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| spouse | Sarah Harrison Blair ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: James Blair Description of subject: James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman and educator best known as the founder and first president of the College of William & Mary in colonial Virginia.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.