Edward Livingston
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Edward Livingston was a prominent American jurist, statesman, and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State and helped draft influential legal codes in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Livingston canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4297520 — 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: Edward Livingston Context triple: [Livingston family, hasNotableMember, Edward Livingston]
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A.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
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B.
William Rufus King
William Rufus King was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Alabama and briefly as the 13th vice president of the United States under President Franklin Pierce.
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C.
Thomas De Witt
Thomas De Witt is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, most commonly associated with American clergymen and public figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Benjamin Ely
Benjamin Ely was an influential figure whose ideas and work helped shape the thought and career of educator and women's education pioneer Sophia Smith.
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E.
Serranus Clinton Hastings
Serranus Clinton Hastings was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who became a prominent figure in California’s early legal and political history, including founding the law school that long bore his name.
- 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: Edward Livingston Target entity description: Edward Livingston was a prominent American jurist, statesman, and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State and helped draft influential legal codes in the early 19th century.
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A.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
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B.
William Rufus King
William Rufus King was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Alabama and briefly as the 13th vice president of the United States under President Franklin Pierce.
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C.
Thomas De Witt
Thomas De Witt is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals, most commonly associated with American clergymen and public figures from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Benjamin Ely
Benjamin Ely was an influential figure whose ideas and work helped shape the thought and career of educator and women's education pioneer Sophia Smith.
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E.
Serranus Clinton Hastings
Serranus Clinton Hastings was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who became a prominent figure in California’s early legal and political history, including founding the law school that long bore his name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1764-05-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1836-05-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer |
City of New York
NERFINISHED
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United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of State ⓘ |
| familyName | Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| memberOf | Livingston family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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Democratic-Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of Louisiana’s legal codes
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service as U.S. Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Livingston Code for Louisiana
NERFINISHED
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Louisiana civil code revisions NERFINISHED ⓘ Penal code draft for Louisiana ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Vice President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Andrew Jackson administration
NERFINISHED
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War of 1812 era politics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Clermont, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Montgomery Place, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mayor of New York City
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana ⓘ Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York ⓘ U.S. Minister to France NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Representative NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Secretary of State ⓘ United States Senator ⓘ United States Senator from Louisiana ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Robert R. Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New Orleans
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Edward Livingston Description of subject: Edward Livingston was a prominent American jurist, statesman, and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State and helped draft influential legal codes in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Livingston family
subject surface form:
Livingston County, Michigan
subject surface form:
Robert R. Livingston