Paul V. McNutt
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Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul V. McNutt canonical | 6 |
| Paul Vories McNutt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T182185 — 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: Paul V. McNutt Context triple: [Federal Security Agency, firstHeadOfGovernmentAgency, Paul V. McNutt]
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A.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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B.
Claude R. Wickard
Claude R. Wickard was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, best known for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn that expanded federal regulatory power under the Commerce Clause.
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C.
Robert A. Taft
Robert A. Taft was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Ohio, known as “Mr. Republican” for his influential conservative leadership and opposition to many New Deal and postwar internationalist policies.
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D.
Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
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E.
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was an American politician who served as the 26th vice president of the United States under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1909.
- 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: Paul V. McNutt Target entity description: Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
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A.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes was an American statesman and jurist who served as governor of New York, U.S. Supreme Court justice and later chief justice, and U.S. secretary of state, and was the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
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B.
Claude R. Wickard
Claude R. Wickard was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, best known for his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn that expanded federal regulatory power under the Commerce Clause.
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C.
Robert A. Taft
Robert A. Taft was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Ohio, known as “Mr. Republican” for his influential conservative leadership and opposition to many New Deal and postwar internationalist policies.
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D.
Charles L. McNary
Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
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E.
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was an American politician who served as the 26th vice president of the United States under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1909.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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diplomat ⓘ governor ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Harvard Law School
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Indiana University ⓘ
surface form:
Indiana University Bloomington
|
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| consideredFor | Democratic presidential nomination in 1940 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1891-07-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1955-03-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | McNutt ⓘ |
| fullName |
Paul V. McNutt
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Paul Vories McNutt
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| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| memberOf | Democratic Party leadership during the 1930s and 1940s ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prominent role in New Deal federal administration
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service as U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines ⓘ service as governor of Indiana ⓘ |
| notableWork |
administration of the War Manpower Commission during World War II
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leadership of the Federal Security Agency during the New Deal era ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| officeEnd |
Chairman of the War Manpower Commission term ended 1945
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Federal Security Administrator term ended 1942 ⓘ Governor of Indiana term ended 1937-01-11 ⓘ U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines term ended 1947 ⓘ U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines term ended 1939 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
Chairman of the War Manpower Commission term began 1942
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Federal Security Administrator term began 1939 ⓘ Governor of Indiana term began 1933-01-09 ⓘ U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines term began 1946 ⓘ U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines term began 1937 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Franklin, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| positionHeld |
Administrator of the Federal Security Agency
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Chairman of the War Manpower Commission ⓘ Dean of Indiana University School of Law ⓘ Governor of Indiana ⓘ National Commander of The American Legion ⓘ U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines ⓘ
surface form:
United States Ambassador to the Philippines
United States High Commissioner to the Philippines ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| spouse | Katharine McCray McNutt ⓘ |
| taughtAt | Indiana University Maurer School of Law ⓘ |
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: Paul V. McNutt Description of subject: Paul V. McNutt was an American politician and diplomat who served as governor of Indiana, U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and a prominent New Deal-era federal administrator.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Federal Security Agency
this entity surface form:
Paul Vories McNutt