DeWitt Clinton
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American politician
Freemason
Governor of New York
Mayor of New York City
United States senator
human
lawyer
DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DeWitt Clinton canonical | 41 |
| Governor DeWitt Clinton | 1 |
| James Clinton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T142828 — 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: DeWitt Clinton Context triple: [Erie Canal, governorDuringConstruction, DeWitt Clinton]
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A.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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B.
William H. Seward
William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
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C.
Quincy Adams
Quincy Adams is a major MBTA rapid transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts, providing park-and-ride access to Boston via the Red Line.
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D.
George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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E.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States and a prominent American diplomat, statesman, and congressman known for his strong anti-slavery stance and influential foreign policy.
- 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: DeWitt Clinton Target entity description: DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
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A.
Robert R. Livingston
Robert R. Livingston was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later negotiated the Louisiana Purchase as U.S. minister to France.
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B.
William H. Seward
William H. Seward was a 19th-century American statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and was a leading figure in the Union war effort and postwar expansion.
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C.
Quincy Adams
Quincy Adams is a major MBTA rapid transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts, providing park-and-ride access to Boston via the Red Line.
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D.
George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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E.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States and a prominent American diplomat, statesman, and congressman known for his strong anti-slavery stance and influential foreign policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Freemason ⓘ Governor of New York ⓘ Mayor of New York City ⓘ United States senator ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1769-03-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Little Britain, Province of New York
ⓘ
Orange County, New York ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | United States presidential election, 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1828-02-11 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Albany
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, New York
|
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia College
Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Clinton ⓘ |
| father |
DeWitt Clinton
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
James Clinton
|
| fieldOfWork |
infrastructure development
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ transportation policy ⓘ |
| fullName | DeWitt Clinton self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | DeWitt ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advancing economic development of New York
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championing construction of the Erie Canal ⓘ expanding New York State infrastructure ⓘ promoting internal improvements in New York ⓘ |
| legacy |
contributed to New York becoming the Empire State
ⓘ
History of New York City ⓘ
surface form:
helped make New York City a major commercial center
|
| mother | Mary DeWitt ⓘ |
| nickname | Father of the Erie Canal ⓘ |
| notableWork | Erie Canal ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| opponent | James Madison ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic-Republican Party
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Federalist Party ally ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Canal Commissioner of New York
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Governor of New York ⓘ Grand Master of Masons in New York ⓘ Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York ⓘ Lieutenant Governor of New York ⓘ Mayor of New York City ⓘ Member of the New York State Assembly ⓘ Member of the New York State Senate ⓘ United States Senator from New York ⓘ |
| ranForOffice | President of the United States ⓘ |
| relative | George Clinton ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| spouse |
Catharine Jones
ⓘ
Maria Franklin ⓘ |
| supportedProject |
Erie Canal
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statewide canal system in New York ⓘ |
| uncle | George Clinton ⓘ |
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: DeWitt Clinton Description of subject: DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Clinton
subject surface form:
Clinton, Tennessee
subject surface form:
Clinton Township, Michigan
this entity surface form:
Governor DeWitt Clinton
subject surface form:
Clinton, Massachusetts
subject surface form:
Green-Wood Cemetery
subject surface form:
Clinton County, Iowa
subject surface form:
Clinton County (generic)