William Larrabee
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William Larrabee was an American politician and businessman who served as the 13th governor of Iowa in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Larrabee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4997145 — 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: William Larrabee Context triple: [Bacon Academy, hasAlumnus, William Larrabee]
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A.
Roswell Gilpatric
Roswell Gilpatric was an American lawyer and government official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and played a key role during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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B.
John P. Lucas
John P. Lucas was a U.S. Army major general in World War II best known for leading the Allied VI Corps during the Italian Campaign, including the controversial Anzio landings.
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C.
John S. Collins
John S. Collins was an early developer and entrepreneur in Miami Beach, Florida, instrumental in its transformation into a resort destination.
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D.
George Allen Ross
George Allen Ross was a prominent Canadian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Ross and Macdonald.
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E.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
- 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: William Larrabee Target entity description: William Larrabee was an American politician and businessman who served as the 13th governor of Iowa in the late 19th century.
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A.
Roswell Gilpatric
Roswell Gilpatric was an American lawyer and government official who served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and played a key role during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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B.
John P. Lucas
John P. Lucas was a U.S. Army major general in World War II best known for leading the Allied VI Corps during the Italian Campaign, including the controversial Anzio landings.
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C.
John S. Collins
John S. Collins was an early developer and entrepreneur in Miami Beach, Florida, instrumental in its transformation into a resort destination.
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D.
George Allen Ross
George Allen Ross was a prominent Canadian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Ross and Macdonald.
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E.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessman
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | God’s Acre Cemetery, Clermont, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
banking
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milling ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | state-level political leadership in Iowa ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1832-01-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1912-11-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | local schools in Connecticut ⓘ |
| employer | State of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Larrabee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | William NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
investments in banking and milling in Iowa
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leadership in Iowa Republican politics ⓘ serving as Governor of Iowa ⓘ |
| legislativeBodyMember | Iowa Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| militaryService | Connecticut militia (youth service) ⓘ |
| movedTo | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of Iowa’s public school system
ⓘ
promotion of railroad regulation in Iowa ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 13th Governor of Iowa ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ledyard, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Clermont, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Iowa ⓘ |
| predecessor | Buren R. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence | Clermont, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Anna Matilda Appleman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Horace Boies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEndAsGovernorOfIowa | 1890 ⓘ |
| termStartAsGovernorOfIowa | 1886 ⓘ |
| yearMovedToIowa | 1850s ⓘ |
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: William Larrabee Description of subject: William Larrabee was an American politician and businessman who served as the 13th governor of Iowa in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.