George Hearst
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George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Hearst canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657677 — 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.
Target entity: George Hearst Context triple: [William Randolph Hearst, parent, George Hearst]
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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was a powerful American newspaper publisher and media magnate whose sensationalist journalism helped shape modern mass media and public opinion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Robert R. McCormick
Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
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David Whitmire Hearst
David Whitmire Hearst was a member of the prominent Hearst family and one of the sons of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was an American businessman and sportsman from the prominent Vanderbilt dynasty, best remembered for his wealth, philanthropy, and death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
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B. C. Forbes
B. C. Forbes was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author best known as the founder of Forbes magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: George Hearst Target entity description: George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
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A.
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was a powerful American newspaper publisher and media magnate whose sensationalist journalism helped shape modern mass media and public opinion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Robert R. McCormick
Robert R. McCormick was a prominent American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his influential role in 20th-century journalism and conservative politics.
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C.
David Whitmire Hearst
David Whitmire Hearst was a member of the prominent Hearst family and one of the sons of American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
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D.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was an American businessman and sportsman from the prominent Vanderbilt dynasty, best remembered for his wealth, philanthropy, and death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
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B. C. Forbes
B. C. Forbes was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author best known as the founder of Forbes magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ mining magnate ⓘ politician ⓘ rancher ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1820-09-03 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cypress Lawn Memorial Park ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | disease ⓘ |
| child | William Randolph Hearst ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1891-02-28 ⓘ |
| electedIn | 1886 United States Senate election in California ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of European descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Hearst ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mining industry
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politics ⓘ ranching ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
land and cattle ranching
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resource extraction ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | California Gold Rush era business activities ⓘ |
| knownFor |
amassing a fortune in mining
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early investments in major Western mines ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | George Hearst self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of the Comstock Lode interests
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investments in the Anaconda Mine ⓘ investments in the Homestake Mine ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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investor ⓘ miner ⓘ politician ⓘ rancher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Franklin County, Missouri ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Senator
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United States Senator from California ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| represented |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| representedIn | United States Senate ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Phoebe Apperson Hearst ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: George Hearst Description of subject: George Hearst was a 19th-century American mining magnate, rancher, and politician who amassed a fortune in the mining industry and later served as a U.S. Senator from California.
Referenced by (7)
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