Thomas S. Jesup
E207675
Thomas S. Jesup was a long-serving U.S. Army officer and Quartermaster General noted for his prominent leadership in multiple early 19th-century American conflicts, including the Seminole Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas S. Jesup canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1789791 — 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: Thomas S. Jesup Context triple: [Second Seminole War, commander, Thomas S. Jesup]
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Elihu Root
Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
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Frederick T. Gates
Frederick T. Gates was an American Baptist minister and influential philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped shape and direct major charitable initiatives in education, public health, and scientific research.
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C.
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
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D.
Henry P. Davison
Henry P. Davison was an American banker and philanthropist best known for his leadership in the Red Cross and for helping to establish major health organizations in the early 20th century.
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E.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
- 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: Thomas S. Jesup Target entity description: Thomas S. Jesup was a long-serving U.S. Army officer and Quartermaster General noted for his prominent leadership in multiple early 19th-century American conflicts, including the Seminole Wars.
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A.
Elihu Root
Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
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B.
Frederick T. Gates
Frederick T. Gates was an American Baptist minister and influential philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped shape and direct major charitable initiatives in education, public health, and scientific research.
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C.
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
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D.
Henry P. Davison
Henry P. Davison was an American banker and philanthropist best known for his leadership in the Red Cross and for helping to establish major health organizations in the early 20th century.
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E.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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human ⓘ quartermaster general ⓘ |
| conflict |
Mexican–American War
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Second Seminole War ⓘ Seminole Wars ⓘ War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| era | early 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Jesup ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military administration
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military logistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasRole |
logistics commander
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military leader ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the Seminole Wars
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logistical leadership in early 19th-century American conflicts ⓘ long service as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Quartermaster General of the United States Army ⓘ |
| residence | 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: Thomas S. Jesup Description of subject: Thomas S. Jesup was a long-serving U.S. Army officer and Quartermaster General noted for his prominent leadership in multiple early 19th-century American conflicts, including the Seminole Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.