Peter B. Porter
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Peter B. Porter was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and War of 1812 military leader who served as U.S. Secretary of War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter B. Porter canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4258960 — 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: Peter B. Porter Context triple: [Porter Avenue, namedAfter, Peter B. Porter]
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A.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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B.
Arthur K. Bolton
Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
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C.
George M. Murray
George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
James P. Speer
James P. Speer is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Speer, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established in common reference sources.
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E.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
- 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: Peter B. Porter Target entity description: Peter B. Porter was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and War of 1812 military leader who served as U.S. Secretary of War.
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A.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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B.
Arthur K. Bolton
Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
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C.
George M. Murray
George M. Murray was a religious leader and co-author of the 1963 "A Call for Unity" statement by white clergymen that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
James P. Speer
James P. Speer is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Speer, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established in common reference sources.
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E.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Secretary of War
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | James Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Thanks of the United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1773-08-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1844-03-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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military affairs ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Augustus Porter
NERFINISHED
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Peter A. Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic-Republican Party
NERFINISHED
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Whig Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Buell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Leadership in the Battle of Chippewa
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Leadership in the Battle of Lundy’s Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Litchfield, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Niagara Falls, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the United States House of Representatives
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New York Secretary of State NERFINISHED ⓘ New York State Assembly member ⓘ United States Secretary of War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| represented | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedIn | United States House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Black Rock, New York
NERFINISHED
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Niagara Falls, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Black Rock, New York
NERFINISHED
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Buffalo, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Peter B. Porter Description of subject: Peter B. Porter was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and War of 1812 military leader who served as U.S. Secretary of War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.