Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence
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Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served as mayor of New York City and later held prominent federal appointments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4408158 — 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: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence Context triple: [Collector of the Port of New York, positionHeldBy, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence]
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A.
Clarence Fahnestock
Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
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B.
Ogden Goelet
Ogden Goelet was a wealthy 19th-century American financier and prominent member of New York high society, known for his vast real estate holdings and opulent lifestyle.
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C.
Herbert H. Bateman
Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
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D.
Franklyn Laws Hutton
Franklyn Laws Hutton was an American investment banker and co-founder of the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton & Co., best known as the father of heiress Barbara Hutton.
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E.
Godfrey Dewey
Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
- 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: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence Target entity description: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served as mayor of New York City and later held prominent federal appointments.
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A.
Clarence Fahnestock
Clarence Fahnestock was a New York physician and outdoorsman whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
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B.
Ogden Goelet
Ogden Goelet was a wealthy 19th-century American financier and prominent member of New York high society, known for his vast real estate holdings and opulent lifestyle.
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C.
Herbert H. Bateman
Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
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D.
Franklyn Laws Hutton
Franklyn Laws Hutton was an American investment banker and co-founder of the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton & Co., best known as the father of heiress Barbara Hutton.
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E.
Godfrey Dewey
Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mayor ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th-century American politics ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Martin Van Buren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1791-02-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| burialPlace | Trinity Church Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 1861-02-20 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicGroup | Dutch Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | American politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| name | Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first popularly elected mayor of New York City ⓘ |
| notableOffice |
Collector of the Port of New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mayor of New York City ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
1834-05-01
ⓘ
1837-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
1834-01-01
ⓘ
1834-05-01 ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Collector of the Port of New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mayor of New York City ⓘ Member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| representedDistrict | New York's 3rd congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1834-05-15 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1833-03-04 ⓘ |
| workedIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence Description of subject: Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence was a 19th-century American politician from New York who served as mayor of New York City and later held prominent federal appointments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.