Increase A. Lapham
E133573
Increase A. Lapham was a 19th-century American naturalist, scientist, and surveyor known for his pioneering work in geology, botany, and the early weather forecasting efforts in Wisconsin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Increase A. Lapham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1167111 — 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: Increase A. Lapham Context triple: [Increase, hasGivenNameBearer, Increase A. Lapham]
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A.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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B.
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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C.
Thomas L. Kane
Thomas L. Kane was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and advocate for the Latter-day Saints who later became a Union Army officer during the Civil War.
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D.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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E.
Horace Walker
Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
- 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: Increase A. Lapham Target entity description: Increase A. Lapham was a 19th-century American naturalist, scientist, and surveyor known for his pioneering work in geology, botany, and the early weather forecasting efforts in Wisconsin.
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A.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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B.
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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C.
Thomas L. Kane
Thomas L. Kane was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and advocate for the Latter-day Saints who later became a Union Army officer during the Civil War.
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D.
Cecil H. Green
Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
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E.
Horace Walker
Horace Walker was a 19th-century British mountaineer known for pioneering ascents in the Alps and the Caucasus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanist
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geologist ⓘ human ⓘ naturalist ⓘ scientist ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of systematic weather observations in the United States
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mapping and surveying in Wisconsin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lapham ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
botany
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geology ⓘ meteorology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Allen
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Increase ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early weather forecasting efforts in Wisconsin
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pioneering work in botany in Wisconsin ⓘ pioneering work in geology in Wisconsin ⓘ |
| name | Increase Allen Lapham ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for a national weather service
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botanical studies of Wisconsin flora ⓘ early geological surveys of Wisconsin ⓘ |
| occupation |
botanist
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geologist ⓘ naturalist ⓘ scientist ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Milwaukee
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surface form:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Increase A. Lapham Description of subject: Increase A. Lapham was a 19th-century American naturalist, scientist, and surveyor known for his pioneering work in geology, botany, and the early weather forecasting efforts in Wisconsin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.