Timothy Bigelow (lawyer)
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Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5032146 — 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: Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) Context triple: [Bigelow, hasNotableIndividual, Timothy Bigelow (lawyer)]
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A.
James Mitchell
James Mitchell is a businessman best known as the founder of Southern Company, one of the largest electric utility holding companies in the United States.
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B.
James Mitchell
James Mitchell was an American actor and dancer best known for his work in classic Hollywood musicals and later for his long-running role on the soap opera "All My Children."
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C.
Mark Robarts
Mark Robarts is an ambitious young clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," whose social aspirations and financial imprudence drive much of the story’s conflict.
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D.
Joshua W. Sill
Joshua W. Sill was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and death at the Battle of Stones River.
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E.
Timothy J. Sexton
Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
- 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: Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) Target entity description: Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the early 19th century.
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A.
James Mitchell
James Mitchell is a businessman best known as the founder of Southern Company, one of the largest electric utility holding companies in the United States.
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B.
James Mitchell
James Mitchell was an American actor and dancer best known for his work in classic Hollywood musicals and later for his long-running role on the soap opera "All My Children."
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C.
Mark Robarts
Mark Robarts is an ambitious young clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," whose social aspirations and financial imprudence drive much of the story’s conflict.
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D.
Joshua W. Sill
Joshua W. Sill was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and death at the Battle of Stones River.
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E.
Timothy J. Sexton
Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ speaker of a legislature ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1767-04-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Groton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1821-05-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Medford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
Harvard University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yankee ⓘ |
| familyName | Bigelow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Timothy Bigelow (Revolutionary War officer) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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politics ⓘ |
| genre | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | being Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ⓘ |
| lifetime | 1767–1821 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Massachusetts General Court
NERFINISHED
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Massachusetts House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Anna Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Timothy Bigelow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Timothy Bigelow (Revolutionary War officer) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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politician ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Federalist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Federalist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
NERFINISHED
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member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ⓘ member of the Massachusetts Senate ⓘ |
| region | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts ⓘ Medford, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lucy Prescott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) Description of subject: Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts 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.