Robert M. La Follette
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Robert M. La Follette was a prominent early 20th-century American politician and reformer known for championing progressive causes such as government regulation, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate power.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert M. La Follette Sr. | 3 |
| Robert M. La Follette canonical | 2 |
| Robert M. La Follette Jr. | 2 |
| La Follette | 1 |
| Philip La Follette | 1 |
| Robert Marion La Follette Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111157 — 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: Robert M. La Follette Context triple: [Progressive Era, significantFigure, Robert M. La Follette]
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A.
Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm was an American industrialist and paper magnate best known for building one of the largest paper manufacturing empires in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
John Hugh McNary
John Hugh McNary was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
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C.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Johnson was a prominent early 20th-century American progressive politician who served as governor of California and later as a long-tenured U.S. senator.
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D.
George W. Norris
George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
- 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: Robert M. La Follette Target entity description: Robert M. La Follette was a prominent early 20th-century American politician and reformer known for championing progressive causes such as government regulation, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate power.
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A.
Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm was an American industrialist and paper magnate best known for building one of the largest paper manufacturing empires in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
John Hugh McNary
John Hugh McNary was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
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C.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Johnson was a prominent early 20th-century American progressive politician who served as governor of California and later as a long-tenured U.S. senator.
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D.
George W. Norris
George W. Norris was a progressive Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska renowned for his political independence, advocacy of New Deal reforms, and defense of constitutional principles, which earned him recognition in "Profiles in Courage."
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E.
Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ progressive reformer ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| candidateIn |
1924 United States presidential election
ⓘ
surface form:
United States presidential election, 1924
|
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| child |
Robert M. La Follette
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Philip La Follette
Robert M. La Follette self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1855-06-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1925-06-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Wisconsin Law School
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| familyName |
Robert M. La Follette
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
La Follette
|
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| honorificName |
Robert M. La Follette
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Robert Marion La Follette Sr.
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| knownFor |
advocating government regulation of business
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championing progressive causes ⓘ defending civil liberties during wartime ⓘ |
| memberOf |
United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
United States Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Progressive Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Progressive Party (United States, 1924)
Republican Party ⓘ |
| movement | Progressivism in the United States ⓘ |
| nickname | Fighting Bob ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy of direct primary elections
ⓘ
leadership of the Wisconsin Idea reforms ⓘ opposition to U.S. entry into World War I ⓘ opposition to corporate power and monopolies ⓘ support for regulation of railroads ⓘ support for workers’ rights and labor legislation ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
orator ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
Governor of Wisconsin term ended 1906
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U.S. Senator from Wisconsin term ended 1925 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
Governor of Wisconsin term began 1901
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U.S. Senator from Wisconsin term began 1906 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Primrose, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Wisconsin
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ United States Senator ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| represented | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| residence |
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Belle Case La Follette ⓘ |
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: Robert M. La Follette Description of subject: Robert M. La Follette was a prominent early 20th-century American politician and reformer known for championing progressive causes such as government regulation, workers’ rights, and opposition to corporate power.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.
subject surface form:
Progressive Party (United States, 1912)
this entity surface form:
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
this entity surface form:
La Follette
this entity surface form:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.
this entity surface form:
Philip La Follette
this entity surface form:
Robert Marion La Follette Sr.
this entity surface form:
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
this entity surface form:
Robert M. La Follette Sr.