Amos Parker Wilder
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Amos Parker Wilder was an American diplomat, journalist, and U.S. consul who served in several posts abroad and was the father of playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amos Parker Wilder canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2676888 — 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: Amos Parker Wilder Context triple: [Thornton Wilder, father, Amos Parker Wilder]
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A.
Amos Niven Wilder
Amos Niven Wilder was an American theologian, literary critic, and New Testament scholar known for his influential work on the relationship between religion and literature.
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B.
Ludlow Ogden Smith
Ludlow Ogden Smith was an American businessman best known as the first husband of actress Katharine Hepburn.
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C.
J. N. Andrews
J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
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D.
Benjamin Pickman Mann
Benjamin Pickman Mann was the son of American education reformer Horace Mann and a member of the prominent Mann family in 19th-century New England.
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E.
Ludlow Wray
Ludlow "Lud" Wray was an early 20th-century American football player and coach who helped found and coach in the National Football League.
- 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: Amos Parker Wilder Target entity description: Amos Parker Wilder was an American diplomat, journalist, and U.S. consul who served in several posts abroad and was the father of playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
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A.
Amos Niven Wilder
Amos Niven Wilder was an American theologian, literary critic, and New Testament scholar known for his influential work on the relationship between religion and literature.
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B.
Ludlow Ogden Smith
Ludlow Ogden Smith was an American businessman best known as the first husband of actress Katharine Hepburn.
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C.
J. N. Andrews
J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
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D.
Benjamin Pickman Mann
Benjamin Pickman Mann was the son of American education reformer Horace Mann and a member of the prominent Mann family in 19th-century New England.
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E.
Ludlow Wray
Ludlow "Lud" Wray was an early 20th-century American football player and coach who helped found and coach in the National Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
consul
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| child |
Amos Niven Wilder
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Charlotte Wilder ⓘ Isabel Wilder ⓘ Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
American newspapers
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United States Department of State ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilder ⓘ |
| givenName | Amos ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Amos Niven Wilder
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Charlotte Wilder ⓘ Isabel Wilder ⓘ Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| notableWork | journalism ⓘ |
| occupation |
consul
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diplomat ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States consuls
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surface form:
United States consul
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Isabel Wilder
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surface form:
Isabella Niven Wilder
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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: Amos Parker Wilder Description of subject: Amos Parker Wilder was an American diplomat, journalist, and U.S. consul who served in several posts abroad and was the father of playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.