Jacob Bigelow
E20700
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Bigelow canonical | 2 |
| Caspar Wistar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T24762 — 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: Jacob Bigelow Context triple: [Mount Auburn Cemetery, founder, Jacob Bigelow]
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A.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Thomas Boylston Adams
Thomas Boylston Adams was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the youngest son of U.S. President John Adams who served in various public roles in the early United States.
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C.
Edward Everett
Edward Everett was a prominent 19th-century American politician, orator, and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, governor of Massachusetts, and briefly as U.S. Secretary of State.
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D.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
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E.
Isaac G. Perry
Isaac G. Perry was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for his extensive work on public buildings and armories throughout New York State.
- 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: Jacob Bigelow Target entity description: Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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A.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Thomas Boylston Adams
Thomas Boylston Adams was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the youngest son of U.S. President John Adams who served in various public roles in the early United States.
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C.
Edward Everett
Edward Everett was a prominent 19th-century American politician, orator, and statesman who served as a U.S. senator, governor of Massachusetts, and briefly as U.S. Secretary of State.
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D.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
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E.
Isaac G. Perry
Isaac G. Perry was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for his extensive work on public buildings and armories throughout New York State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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architect ⓘ botanist ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Bigelow ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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botany ⓘ medicine ⓘ practical science ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | rural cemetery movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering the rural cemetery movement
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promoting practical science ⓘ promoting public health ⓘ |
| notableWork | design of Mount Auburn Cemetery ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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botanist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New England
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United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jacob Bigelow Description of subject: Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Caspar Wistar