Elisha Phelps
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Elisha Phelps was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elisha Phelps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4997146 — 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: Elisha Phelps Context triple: [Bacon Academy, hasAlumnus, Elisha Phelps]
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A.
Nathan Appleton
Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
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B.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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C.
George Meeker
George Meeker was an American character actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films.
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D.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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E.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
- 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: Elisha Phelps Target entity description: Elisha Phelps was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
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A.
Nathan Appleton
Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
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B.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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C.
George Meeker
George Meeker was an American character actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films.
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D.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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E.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Hopmeadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | John Smith Phelps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1779-11-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1847-11-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Litchfield Law School
NERFINISHED
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Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Phelps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Noah Phelps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Elisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldLegislativeOfficeIn | Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Adams-Clay Republican Party
NERFINISHED
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Democratic-Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ National Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Charlotte Griswold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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farmer ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Hartford County, Connecticut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simsbury, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Hartford County, Connecticut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simmsbury, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
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United States Representative from Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ clerk of the Connecticut House of Representatives ⓘ collector of internal revenue ⓘ judge of the Hartford County Court ⓘ member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ postmaster of Simsbury, Connecticut ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Simsbury, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedCongressionalDistrict | at-large congressional district of Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Simsbury, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lucy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresentedInTheUSHouseOfRepresentatives | Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasARepresentativeInCongress |
Eighteenth United States Congress
NERFINISHED
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Nineteenth United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventeenth United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Sixteenth United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Twentieth United States Congress 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: Elisha Phelps Description of subject: Elisha Phelps was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from Connecticut who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.