Cyrus Griffin
E202007
Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyrus Griffin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1684015 — 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: Cyrus Griffin Context triple: [President of the Continental Congress, officeHolder, Cyrus Griffin]
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A.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby is an American former amateur golfer and golf industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
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D.
John LaRue
John LaRue was an early American pioneer and landowner in Kentucky after whom LaRue County was named.
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E.
Allan Scott
Allan Scott is a Scottish screenwriter and producer known for his work on films such as "The Preacher's Wife" and for co-creating the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit."
- 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: Cyrus Griffin Target entity description: Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
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A.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby is an American former amateur golfer and golf industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
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D.
John LaRue
John LaRue was an early American pioneer and landowner in Kentucky after whom LaRue County was named.
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E.
Allan Scott
Allan Scott is a Scottish screenwriter and producer known for his work on films such as "The Preacher's Wife" and for co-creating the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Continental Congress delegate ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1748-07-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1810-12-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Middle Temple
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University of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| endTime | 1789-11-15 ⓘ |
| familyName | Griffin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Cyrus ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | Continental Congress ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Honorable ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Virginia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Continental Congress
ⓘ
Virginia House of Delegates ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | United States Senator from Virginia ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Revolutionary era politics ⓘ |
| partOf | Founding era of the United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Farnham, Virginia Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Yorktown
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surface form:
Yorktown, Virginia, United States
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| positionHeld |
Commissioner to negotiate peace with Great Britain
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia ⓘ Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ⓘ Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia ⓘ Member of the Virginia House of Delegates ⓘ President of the Continental Congress ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism (broadly)
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surface form:
Anglicanism
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| residence | Virginia ⓘ |
| spouse | Lady Christina Stuart ⓘ |
| startTime | 1788-01-22 ⓘ |
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: Cyrus Griffin Description of subject: Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.