Samuel Beebe
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Samuel Beebe was an early American broker and one of the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange through his participation in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Beebe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723670 — 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: Samuel Beebe Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, Samuel Beebe]
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A.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
James Peck
James Peck was an American pacifist and civil rights activist known for his courageous involvement in nonviolent protests, including the Freedom Rides challenging racial segregation in the United States.
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C.
Elijah E. Myers
Elijah E. Myers was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing several major state capitol buildings across the United States.
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D.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- 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: Samuel Beebe Target entity description: Samuel Beebe was an early American broker and one of the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange through his participation in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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A.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
James Peck
James Peck was an American pacifist and civil rights activist known for his courageous involvement in nonviolent protests, including the Freedom Rides challenging racial segregation in the United States.
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C.
Elijah E. Myers
Elijah E. Myers was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing several major state capitol buildings across the United States.
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D.
Samuel Ellis
Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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broker ⓘ financial agreement ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 18th-century finance ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Samuel Beebe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange
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early American brokerage activities ⓘ |
| occupation | broker ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| role |
founder of what became the New York Stock Exchange
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signer of the Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| signedIn | 1792 ⓘ |
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: Samuel Beebe Description of subject: Samuel Beebe was an early American broker and one of the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange through his participation in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Buttonwood Agreement