Ronald Reagan
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American actor
American politician
Governor of California
President of the United States
Republican Party politician
human
Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States, known for his conservative economic policies, Cold War leadership, and influential role in reshaping American politics in the 1980s.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ronald Reagan canonical | 438 |
| Reagan | 9 |
| President Ronald Reagan | 4 |
| Governor Ronald Reagan | 1 |
| Ronald Reagan’s nickname "the Gipper" | 1 |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan | 1 |
| U.S. President Ronald Reagan | 1 |
| portrait of Ronald Reagan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3382 — 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: Ronald Reagan Context triple: [Time Person of the Year, notableRecipient, Ronald Reagan]
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A.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, known for his foreign policy achievements such as opening relations with China and for resigning from office amid the Watergate scandal.
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B.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump is an American businessman, television personality, and politician who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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C.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States and a former five-star general who served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
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D.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States, known for his leadership during the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the early stages of the civil rights movement before his assassination in 1963.
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E.
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
- 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: Ronald Reagan Target entity description: Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States, known for his conservative economic policies, Cold War leadership, and influential role in reshaping American politics in the 1980s.
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A.
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, known for his foreign policy achievements such as opening relations with China and for resigning from office amid the Watergate scandal.
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B.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump is an American businessman, television personality, and politician who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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C.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States and a former five-star general who served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
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D.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States, known for his leadership during the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the early stages of the civil rights movement before his assassination in 1963.
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E.
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, known for his humanitarian relief efforts during and after World War I and for leading the country at the onset of the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Ronald Reagan Description of subject: Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States, known for his conservative economic policies, Cold War leadership, and influential role in reshaping American politics in the 1980s.
Referenced by (456)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Reagan
subject surface form:
Ronald Reagan
this entity surface form:
Reagan
subject surface form:
Jane Wyman
subject surface form:
Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
subject surface form:
Firearm Owners Protection Act
subject surface form:
Title IV (Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986)
subject surface form:
Maureen Reagan
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. (attributed involvement)
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notableAttendee
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Ronald Reagan
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subject surface form:
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute (conceptual sponsor)
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namedAfter
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Ronald Reagan
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subject surface form:
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute