Ebenezer Irving
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Ebenezer Irving was a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York, likely part of the same milieu as author Washington Irving.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ebenezer Irving canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2455790 — 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: Ebenezer Irving Context triple: [Irving family of early 19th-century New York, hasChild, Ebenezer Irving]
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A.
Ebenezer Gay
Ebenezer Gay was an American Congregational minister and early proponent of liberal Christian theology in New England.
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B.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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C.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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D.
Enoch Poor
Enoch Poor was an American Revolutionary War brigadier general from New Hampshire who distinguished himself in multiple key campaigns, including the Saratoga and Monmouth battles.
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E.
Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
- 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: Ebenezer Irving Target entity description: Ebenezer Irving was a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York, likely part of the same milieu as author Washington Irving.
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A.
Ebenezer Gay
Ebenezer Gay was an American Congregational minister and early proponent of liberal Christian theology in New England.
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B.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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C.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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D.
Enoch Poor
Enoch Poor was an American Revolutionary War brigadier general from New Hampshire who distinguished himself in multiple key campaigns, including the Saratoga and Monmouth battles.
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E.
Samuel Blatchford
Samuel Blatchford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his expertise in admiralty and patent law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Irving ⓘ |
| givenName | Ebenezer ⓘ |
| memberOf | Irving family ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Irving family of early 19th-century New York
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surface form:
Irving family of New York
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| relative | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| sameSocialMilieuAs | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Ebenezer Irving Description of subject: Ebenezer Irving was a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York, likely part of the same milieu as author Washington Irving.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.