Iredell
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Iredell is a surname most notably associated with James Iredell Sr., an influential early American jurist and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iredell canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1857074 — 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: Iredell Context triple: [James Iredell Sr., familyName, Iredell]
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A.
Titisee
Titisee is a scenic glacial lake and popular tourist destination in Germany’s Black Forest region, known for its clear waters, surrounding forests, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Woodland Creek
Woodland Creek is a smaller stream in New York’s Catskill region that feeds into Esopus Creek as one of its tributaries.
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C.
Pee Dee River
The Pee Dee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows from the Appalachian foothills through the Carolinas to the Atlantic Ocean, historically important for transportation, agriculture, and regional development.
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D.
Woodfin
Woodfin is the surname of Randall Woodfin, an American politician and mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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E.
Haw River
Haw River is a central North Carolina river that flows through the Piedmont region and ultimately feeds into the Cape Fear River system.
- 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: Iredell Target entity description: Iredell is a surname most notably associated with James Iredell Sr., an influential early American jurist and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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A.
Titisee
Titisee is a scenic glacial lake and popular tourist destination in Germany’s Black Forest region, known for its clear waters, surrounding forests, and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Woodland Creek
Woodland Creek is a smaller stream in New York’s Catskill region that feeds into Esopus Creek as one of its tributaries.
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C.
Pee Dee River
The Pee Dee River is a major waterway in the southeastern United States that flows from the Appalachian foothills through the Carolinas to the Atlantic Ocean, historically important for transportation, agriculture, and regional development.
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D.
Woodfin
Woodfin is the surname of Randall Woodfin, an American politician and mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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E.
Haw River
Haw River is a central North Carolina river that flows through the Piedmont region and ultimately feeds into the Cape Fear River system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
North Carolina history
ⓘ
Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| category | English-language surnames ⓘ |
| child | James Iredell Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfResidence | North Carolina ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1751-10-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1799-10-20 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Iredell
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Iredell self-linksurface differs ⓘ Iredell self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasDerivedToponym | Iredell County, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Iredale ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Iredell Sr. ⓘ |
| notableBearer | James Iredell Sr. ⓘ |
| notableFor | early American judicial review arguments ⓘ |
| notableInContext | early United States legal history ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Federalist Papers
ⓘ
surface form:
Essays in support of the U.S. Constitution
|
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ political essayist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lewes, East Sussex
ⓘ
surface form:
Lewes, Sussex, England
|
| placeOfDeath |
Edenton
ⓘ
surface form:
Edenton, North Carolina, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
Governor of North Carolina ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Hannah Johnston Iredell
ⓘ
James Iredell Sr. ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Iredell Description of subject: Iredell is a surname most notably associated with James Iredell Sr., an influential early American jurist and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Iredell Sr.
subject surface form:
Hannah Johnston Iredell
subject surface form:
James Iredell Jr.