Joseph Reed
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Joseph Reed was an American lawyer, military officer, and statesman who served as a close aide to George Washington and later became President (Governor) of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Reed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2209973 — 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.
Target entity: Joseph Reed Context triple: [Adjutant General of the Continental Army, positionHeldBy, Joseph Reed]
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Joseph Reed
Joseph Reed was a prominent 19th-century Australian architect known for designing many of Melbourne’s most significant public buildings.
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John Jeffries
John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
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C.
George Troup
George Troup was a 19th-century American politician from Georgia who served as a U.S. senator and governor, known for his strong states’ rights stance and controversial role in Native American removal policies.
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D.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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E.
Louis Bache
Louis Bache was a member of the prominent Bache family of early America, known primarily as the brother of Sarah Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin’s daughter.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Joseph Reed Target entity description: Joseph Reed was an American lawyer, military officer, and statesman who served as a close aide to George Washington and later became President (Governor) of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary era.
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A.
Joseph Reed
Joseph Reed was a prominent 19th-century Australian architect known for designing many of Melbourne’s most significant public buildings.
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B.
John Jeffries
John Jeffries was an 18th-century American-born physician and Loyalist who later became a pioneering balloonist and early meteorologist.
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C.
George Troup
George Troup was a 19th-century American politician from Georgia who served as a U.S. senator and governor, known for his strong states’ rights stance and controversial role in Native American removal policies.
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D.
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer was a Scottish-born American physician and brigadier general in the Continental Army who became a Revolutionary War hero after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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E.
Louis Bache
Louis Bache was a member of the prominent Bache family of early America, known primarily as the brother of Sarah Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin’s daughter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| almaMater |
College of New Jersey
ⓘ
Middle Temple ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1741-08-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1785-03-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of New Jersey
ⓘ
Middle Temple ⓘ |
| era | American Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| familyName | Reed ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| jurisdictionGoverned |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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| legalEducation | Middle Temple ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Patriot cause ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as close aide to George Washington
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serving as President of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership in Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War
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service as aide and secretary to George Washington ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Trenton, New Jersey ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
| positionHeld |
Adjutant General of the Continental Army
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Governor of Pennsylvania ⓘ President of Pennsylvania ⓘ aide-de-camp to George Washington ⓘ member of the Continental Congress ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| residence |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| servedUnder | George Washington ⓘ |
| spouse |
Esther de Berdt Reed
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surface form:
Esther De Berdt Reed
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| studiedAt | College of New Jersey ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Philadelphia ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Joseph Reed Description of subject: Joseph Reed was an American lawyer, military officer, and statesman who served as a close aide to George Washington and later became President (Governor) of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.