Lamar
E45230
Lamar is a surname most notably associated with Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lamar canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T356210 — 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: Lamar Context triple: [Mirabeau B. Lamar, familyName, Lamar]
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A.
Lamon
Lamon is an archaeological site notable for inscriptions in the ancient Venetic language.
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B.
Randall Woodfin
Randall Woodfin is an American politician and attorney who serves as the progressive, reform-focused mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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C.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
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D.
Richardson
Richardson is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its telecommunications industry and the University of Texas at Dallas.
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E.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
- 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: Lamar Target entity description: Lamar is a surname most notably associated with Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.
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A.
Lamon
Lamon is an archaeological site notable for inscriptions in the ancient Venetic language.
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B.
Randall Woodfin
Randall Woodfin is an American politician and attorney who serves as the progressive, reform-focused mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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C.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
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D.
Richardson
Richardson is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its telecommunications industry and the University of Texas at Dallas.
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E.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Louisville, Georgia ⓘ |
| country | Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lamar
self-linksurface differs
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Lamar self-linksurface differs ⓘ Lamar self-linksurface differs ⓘ Lamar self-linksurface differs ⓘ Lamar self-linksurface differs ⓘ Lamar self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Mirabeau ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Bill Lamar
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Henry Graybill Lamar ⓘ Joseph Rucker Lamar ⓘ Kendrick Lamar ⓘ Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar ⓘ
surface form:
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Mirabeau B. Lamar ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Pulitzer Prize
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surface form:
Pulitzer Prize for Music
|
| notableFor | role in early history of the Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| occupation |
baseball player
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judge ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ rapper ⓘ record producer ⓘ soldier ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1841 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1838 ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 2 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
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surface form:
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ President of the Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| precededBy | Sam Houston ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Sam Houston ⓘ |
| usedAs |
English-language surname
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French-language surname ⓘ |
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: Lamar Description of subject: Lamar is a surname most notably associated with Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mirabeau B. Lamar
subject surface form:
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
subject surface form:
Joseph Rucker Lamar
subject surface form:
Henry Graybill Lamar
subject surface form:
Bill Lamar
subject surface form:
Kendrick Lamar
subject surface form:
Mirabeau B. Lamar