Hugh Smith
E111648
Hugh Smith was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723656 — 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: Hugh Smith Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, Hugh Smith]
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A.
Harry Fielding Reid
Harry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist best known for formulating the elastic rebound theory that explains the mechanics of earthquakes.
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B.
Hugh Herbert
Hugh Herbert was an American comedian, character actor, and screenwriter best known for his eccentric, fluttery persona in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
William Rockhill Nelson
William Rockhill Nelson was an American newspaper publisher and civic leader in Kansas City whose philanthropy and art patronage led to the creation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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E.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
- 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: Hugh Smith Target entity description: Hugh Smith was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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A.
Harry Fielding Reid
Harry Fielding Reid was an American geophysicist best known for formulating the elastic rebound theory that explains the mechanics of earthquakes.
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B.
Hugh Herbert
Hugh Herbert was an American comedian, character actor, and screenwriter best known for his eccentric, fluttery persona in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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C.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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D.
William Rockhill Nelson
William Rockhill Nelson was an American newspaper publisher and civic leader in Kansas City whose philanthropy and art patronage led to the creation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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E.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial agreement
ⓘ
person ⓘ stock exchange ⓘ stockbroker ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateSigned | 1792 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| helpedFound | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| occupation | stockbroker ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| resultedIn | formation of the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| wasOneOf | early New York stockbrokers ⓘ |
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: Hugh Smith Description of subject: Hugh Smith was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.