David Settle Reid
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David Settle Reid was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of North Carolina and later as a U.S. senator.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Settle Reid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1376600 — 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: David Settle Reid Context triple: [Reidsville, North Carolina, namedAfter, David Settle Reid]
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A.
John Dandridge
John Dandridge was a Virginia planter and colonial official best known as the father of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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B.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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C.
James Edward Rice
James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and video game industry pioneer best known as the founder of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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E.
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Andrew Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname Kirkpatrick, with no widely recognized public achievements or roles commonly associated with his name.
- 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: David Settle Reid Target entity description: David Settle Reid was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of North Carolina and later as a U.S. senator.
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A.
John Dandridge
John Dandridge was a Virginia planter and colonial official best known as the father of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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B.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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C.
James Edward Rice
James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and video game industry pioneer best known as the founder of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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E.
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Andrew Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname Kirkpatrick, with no widely recognized public achievements or roles commonly associated with his name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1813-04-19 ⓘ |
| birthName | David Settle Reid self-link ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Rockingham County, North Carolina ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1891-06-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Reidsville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Reid ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Reidsville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| notableFor | advocacy of universal white manhood suffrage in North Carolina ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of North Carolina
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Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ United States Senator ⓘ |
| residence | Reidsville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | North Carolina ⓘ |
| termEnd |
as Governor of North Carolina: 1854
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as U.S. Representative from North Carolina: 1847 ⓘ as U.S. Senator from North Carolina: 1859 ⓘ |
| termStart |
as Governor of North Carolina: 1851
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as U.S. Representative from North Carolina: 1843 ⓘ as U.S. Senator from North Carolina: 1854 ⓘ |
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: David Settle Reid Description of subject: David Settle Reid was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of North Carolina and later as a U.S. senator.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.