Revels
E120316
Revels is a surname most notably associated with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Revels canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1058896 — 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: Revels Context triple: [Hiram Revels, familyName, Revels]
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A.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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B.
The Concert
The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.
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C.
Thou Swell
"Thou Swell" is a popular jazz standard and show tune composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart, first introduced in the 1927 musical "A Connecticut Yankee."
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D.
The What D'Ye Call It
The What D'Ye Call It is a satirical one-act play by English poet and dramatist John Gay, known for parodying the conventions of contemporary tragedy and theatre.
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E.
Vespers
Vespers is an evening prayer service in the Byzantine Rite, marking the liturgical beginning of the day with psalms, hymns, and incense.
- 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: Revels Target entity description: Revels is a surname most notably associated with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
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A.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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B.
The Concert
The Concert is an unfinished and now missing painting by Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of three figures making music in a domestic interior.
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C.
Thou Swell
"Thou Swell" is a popular jazz standard and show tune composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart, first introduced in the 1927 musical "A Connecticut Yankee."
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D.
The What D'Ye Call It
The What D'Ye Call It is a satirical one-act play by English poet and dramatist John Gay, known for parodying the conventions of contemporary tragedy and theatre.
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E.
Vespers
Vespers is an evening prayer service in the Byzantine Rite, marking the liturgical beginning of the day with psalms, hymns, and incense.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1827-09-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1901-01-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Knox College ⓘ |
| endTimeOfPosition | 1871-03-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| givenName |
Hiram
ⓘ
Rhodes ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Hiram Revels
ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram Rhodes Revels
|
| hasSurname | Revels self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| notableFor | being the first African American to serve in the United States Senate ⓘ |
| occupation |
clergyman
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fayetteville, North Carolina
ⓘ
surface form:
Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Aberdeen, Mississippi
ⓘ
surface form:
Aberdeen, Mississippi, United States
|
| positionHeld | United States Senator ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| representedInLegislature | Mississippi ⓘ |
| servedIn | Union Army ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTimeOfPosition | 1870-02-25 ⓘ |
| wasA | Reconstruction era politician ⓘ |
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: Revels Description of subject: Revels is a surname most notably associated with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hiram Rhodes Revels