Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr.
E275170
Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. was a 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, known for continuing his family’s influential legacy in Reformed theology.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A. A. Hodge | 1 |
| Caspar Wistar Hodge Jr. | 1 |
| Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2513998 — 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: Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. Context triple: [Charles Hodge, child, Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr.]
-
A.
E. H. Moore
E. H. Moore was an influential American mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra and for helping to shape the development of modern mathematical research in the United States.
-
B.
John Charles Fields
John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician best known for founding and endowing the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
-
C.
Solomon Willard
Solomon Willard was a 19th-century American architect and stone carver best known for his influential role in early granite construction and contributions to Boston-area landmarks.
-
D.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
-
E.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
- 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: Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. Target entity description: Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. was a 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, known for continuing his family’s influential legacy in Reformed theology.
-
A.
E. H. Moore
E. H. Moore was an influential American mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra and for helping to shape the development of modern mathematical research in the United States.
-
B.
John Charles Fields
John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician best known for founding and endowing the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
-
C.
Solomon Willard
Solomon Willard was a 19th-century American architect and stone carver best known for his influential role in early granite construction and contributions to Boston-area landmarks.
-
D.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
-
E.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Presbyterian theologian
ⓘ
Princeton Theological Seminary faculty member ⓘ Reformed theologian ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
Christian theology
ⓘ
theology ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Old Princeton theology
ⓘ
surface form:
Old School Presbyterianism
|
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| denomination | Presbyterian ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton Theological Seminary
ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | Princeton Theological Seminary ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodge ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Reformed theology
ⓘ
systematic theology ⓘ |
| genre | theological writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Caspar ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Caspar Wistar Hodge Jr.
Charles Hodge ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Archibald Alexander
ⓘ
Charles Hodge ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ⓘ |
| movement | Reformed theology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
continuing the Hodge family legacy in Reformed theology
ⓘ
defending conservative Reformed orthodoxy at Princeton ⓘ teaching systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
ⓘ
theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| traditionOrSchool | Old Princeton theology ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Princeton, New Jersey
|
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: Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. Description of subject: Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. was a 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, known for continuing his family’s influential legacy in Reformed theology.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A. A. Hodge
this entity surface form:
Caspar Wistar Hodge Jr.