Silas Wright
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Silas Wright was a prominent 19th-century American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Senator and Governor of New York and became a leading figure in the party’s anti-slavery, reformist wing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silas Wright canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4900518 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Wright Context triple: [Barnburner Democrats, notableMember, Silas Wright]
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A.
Augustus Wright
Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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B.
Marcus Wright
Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
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C.
Willard Brown
Willard Brown was a power-hitting Negro League outfielder and Baseball Hall of Famer renowned as one of the era’s most formidable sluggers.
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D.
Isaac Hunt
Isaac Hunt was an English lawyer and political writer of American origin, best known as the father of the Romantic-era essayist and poet Leigh Hunt.
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E.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
- 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: Silas Wright Target entity description: Silas Wright was a prominent 19th-century American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Senator and Governor of New York and became a leading figure in the party’s anti-slavery, reformist wing.
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A.
Augustus Wright
Augustus Wright was one of the early New York brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by participating in the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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B.
Marcus Wright
Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
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C.
Willard Brown
Willard Brown was a power-hitting Negro League outfielder and Baseball Hall of Famer renowned as one of the era’s most formidable sluggers.
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D.
Isaac Hunt
Isaac Hunt was an English lawyer and political writer of American origin, best known as the father of the Romantic-era essayist and poet Leigh Hunt.
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E.
Samuel Weaver
Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Democratic Party politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Canton, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeAllyOf | Martin Van Buren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1795-05-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1847-08-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Middlebury College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1846-12-31 ⓘ |
| familyName | Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Silas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Jacksonian democracy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
hard money Democrat ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influence in New York state politics in the 1830s and 1840s
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leadership in the Barnburner wing of the New York Democratic Party ⓘ opposition to the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States ⓘ support for hard-money financial policies ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general (New York Militia) ⓘ |
| movement | Barnburner faction of the New York Democratic Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | advocacy for independent treasury system ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Vice President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Congress in the Jacksonian era ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Amherst, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Canton, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Member of the New York State Senate ⓘ Member of the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ New York State Comptroller NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrogate of St. Lawrence County, New York ⓘ United States Senator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Canton, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| represented | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedIn | United States Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Canton, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAlongside | William L. Marcy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | New York Militia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1845-01-01 ⓘ |
| termEndAsGovernorOfNewYork | 1846-12-31 ⓘ |
| termEndAsUSSenator | 1844-11-26 ⓘ |
| termStartAsGovernorOfNewYork | 1845-01-01 ⓘ |
| termStartAsUSSenator | 1833-03-04 ⓘ |
| wasAdmittedToTheBarIn | 1819 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Silas Wright Description of subject: Silas Wright was a prominent 19th-century American Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Senator and Governor of New York and became a leading figure in the party’s anti-slavery, reformist wing.
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