Richard Harrison
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Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Harrison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T580359 — 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: Richard Harrison Context triple: [Comptroller of the Treasury, officeHeldBy, Richard Harrison]
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A.
Richard Holland
Richard Holland is an American music producer and former husband of renowned singer Chaka Khan.
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B.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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C.
Robert Hepburn
Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
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D.
Richard Pearson
Richard Pearson was a British naval officer best known for commanding HMS Serapis in its famous 1779 engagement against John Paul Jones during the Battle of Flamborough Head.
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E.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
- 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: Richard Harrison Target entity description: Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
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A.
Richard Holland
Richard Holland is an American music producer and former husband of renowned singer Chaka Khan.
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B.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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C.
Robert Hepburn
Robert Hepburn was the brother of acclaimed American actress Katharine Hepburn and a member of the prominent Hepburn family.
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D.
Richard Pearson
Richard Pearson was a British naval officer best known for commanding HMS Serapis in its famous 1779 engagement against John Paul Jones during the Battle of Flamborough Head.
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E.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American public official
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of U.S. Treasury accounting systems
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organization of early U.S. federal financial controls ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
ⓘ
public finance ⓘ |
| genre | politics ⓘ |
| hasRole | federal financial administrator ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | executive branch of the United States federal government ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping to establish the financial administration of the early United States
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service in the administration of President George Washington ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
ⓘ
government official ⓘ |
| officeContested | none known ⓘ |
| partOf | early federal government of the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury
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first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| saidToBeSameAs | Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early United States federal period ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Richard Harrison Description of subject: Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.