Joseph Smith
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Joseph Smith was the 19th-century American religious leader who founded the Latter-day Saint movement and is regarded by its followers as a prophet.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Smith canonical | 74 |
| Joseph Smith—Matthew | 3 |
| Joseph Smith Jr. | 2 |
| Joseph Smith (for the Book of Mormon text based on them) | 1 |
| Joseph Smith—History | 1 |
| Signature of Joseph Smith.svg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T337266 — 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: Joseph Smith Context triple: [Latter-day Saint movement churches, tracesTo, Joseph Smith]
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A.
Alexander Campbell
Alexander Campbell was a 19th-century religious reformer and key leader in the American Restoration Movement, instrumental in founding the Disciples of Christ and Churches of Christ.
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B.
Felix Y. Manalo
Felix Y. Manalo was a Filipino religious leader who established and led the Iglesia ni Cristo, a prominent independent Christian church originating in the Philippines.
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C.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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D.
Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell was an American religious leader and Bible student who founded the movement that later became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- 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: Joseph Smith Target entity description: Joseph Smith was the 19th-century American religious leader who founded the Latter-day Saint movement and is regarded by its followers as a prophet.
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A.
Alexander Campbell
Alexander Campbell was a 19th-century religious reformer and key leader in the American Restoration Movement, instrumental in founding the Disciples of Christ and Churches of Christ.
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B.
Felix Y. Manalo
Felix Y. Manalo was a Filipino religious leader who established and led the Iglesia ni Cristo, a prominent independent Christian church originating in the Philippines.
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C.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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D.
Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell was an American religious leader and Bible student who founded the movement that later became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Joseph Smith Description of subject: Joseph Smith was the 19th-century American religious leader who founded the Latter-day Saint movement and is regarded by its followers as a prophet.
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carthage, Illinois
subject surface form:
Kirtland, Ohio
subject surface form:
Far West, Missouri
subject surface form:
Far West, Missouri
subject surface form:
Far West, Missouri
subject surface form:
Angel Moroni
subject surface form:
Angel Moroni
subject surface form:
Ina Coolbrith
this entity surface form:
Joseph Smith Jr.