Elias Lyman
E381676
Elias Lyman was a notable member of the prominent Lyman family, recognized for his role in the family's historical and social legacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elias Lyman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3725818 — 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: Elias Lyman Context triple: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Elias Lyman]
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A.
George W. Perkins
George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
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B.
Joseph Ellicott
Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
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C.
Amos G. Throop
Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
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D.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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E.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
- 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: Elias Lyman Target entity description: Elias Lyman was a notable member of the prominent Lyman family, recognized for his role in the family's historical and social legacy.
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A.
George W. Perkins
George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
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B.
Joseph Ellicott
Joseph Ellicott was an early 19th-century American surveyor and land agent best known for laying out and helping to develop the city of Buffalo, New York.
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C.
Amos G. Throop
Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
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D.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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E.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | Lyman ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lyman family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Lyman family historical legacy
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role in Lyman family social legacy ⓘ |
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: Elias Lyman Description of subject: Elias Lyman was a notable member of the prominent Lyman family, recognized for his role in the family's historical and social legacy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.