Jacob Ford Jr.
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Jacob Ford Jr. was an 18th-century American iron manufacturer and Revolutionary War officer from Morristown, New Jersey, whose home later served as George Washington’s headquarters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Ford Jr. canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2020396 — 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 Ford Jr. Context triple: [Ford Mansion, builtFor, Jacob Ford Jr.]
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A.
Leon Riley
Leon Riley was an American professional baseball player and minor league manager, best known as the father of legendary NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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B.
Isaiah Rogers
Isaiah Rogers was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for pioneering hotel design and contributing major public buildings in the United States.
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C.
Justin Bibb
Justin Bibb is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, known for his focus on urban revitalization and police reform.
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D.
Jack Dunphy
Jack Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright best known for his long-term romantic and literary partnership with Truman Capote.
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E.
Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson is an American civil rights activist and attorney who serves as the president and CEO of the NAACP.
- 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 Ford Jr. Target entity description: Jacob Ford Jr. was an 18th-century American iron manufacturer and Revolutionary War officer from Morristown, New Jersey, whose home later served as George Washington’s headquarters.
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A.
Leon Riley
Leon Riley was an American professional baseball player and minor league manager, best known as the father of legendary NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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B.
Isaiah Rogers
Isaiah Rogers was a prominent 19th-century American architect known for pioneering hotel design and contributing major public buildings in the United States.
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C.
Justin Bibb
Justin Bibb is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, known for his focus on urban revitalization and police reform.
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D.
Jack Dunphy
Jack Dunphy was an American novelist and playwright best known for his long-term romantic and literary partnership with Truman Capote.
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E.
Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson is an American civil rights activist and attorney who serves as the president and CEO of the NAACP.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War officer
ⓘ
historic house ⓘ iron manufacturer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Ford Mansion
ⓘ
surface form:
Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey
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| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| hasFormerOwner | Jacob Ford Jr. self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| homeFunction |
George Washington’s headquarters
ⓘ
military headquarters ⓘ |
| homeLaterUsedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | Jr. ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Morristown, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfHome | Morristown, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableEvent | His home served as George Washington’s headquarters ⓘ |
| notableFor |
operating ironworks in colonial New Jersey
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role in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ford family ironworks in New Jersey ⓘ |
| occupation |
iron manufacturer
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military officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Morristown, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Morristown, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs | George Washington’s headquarters ⓘ |
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 Ford Jr. Description of subject: Jacob Ford Jr. was an 18th-century American iron manufacturer and Revolutionary War officer from Morristown, New Jersey, whose home later served as George Washington’s headquarters.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ford Mansion
subject surface form:
Ford Mansion
subject surface form:
Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey