William Henry Harrison
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William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States and a military leader known for his frontier campaigns and brief, 31-day presidency.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227007 — 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: William Henry Harrison Context triple: [War of 1812, notableCommander, William Henry Harrison]
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
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B.
John C. Tyler
John C. Tyler was a philanthropist and co-founder of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award often regarded as the “Nobel Prize for the environment.”
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C.
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
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D.
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893 and overseeing key developments in federal economic regulation and tariff policy during the late 19th century.
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E.
James Madison
James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- 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: William Henry Harrison Target entity description: William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States and a military leader known for his frontier campaigns and brief, 31-day presidency.
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A.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
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B.
John C. Tyler
John C. Tyler was a philanthropist and co-founder of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award often regarded as the “Nobel Prize for the environment.”
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C.
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, whose brief 1881 administration during the Gilded Age was cut short by his assassination.
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D.
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893 and overseeing key developments in federal economic regulation and tariff policy during the late 19th century.
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E.
James Madison
James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William Henry Harrison Description of subject: William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States and a military leader known for his frontier campaigns and brief, 31-day presidency.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harrison County, Iowa
subject surface form:
John Tyler
this entity surface form:
William Henry Harrison Jr.