John Bigelow
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John Bigelow was a 19th-century American lawyer, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War and later as New York’s Secretary of State.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Bigelow canonical | 1 |
| John P. Bigelow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5032144 — 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: John Bigelow Context triple: [Bigelow, hasNotableIndividual, John Bigelow]
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A.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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B.
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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C.
Thomas A. Bartlett
Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
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D.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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E.
James G. Blight
James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
- 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: John Bigelow Target entity description: John Bigelow was a 19th-century American lawyer, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War and later as New York’s Secretary of State.
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A.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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B.
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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C.
Thomas A. Bartlett
Thomas A. Bartlett is an American academic leader and former university president known for his influential roles in higher education administration and policy.
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D.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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E.
James G. Blight
James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diplomat
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1817-11-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1911-12-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Union College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
New York Evening Post
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of State ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ political writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| name | John Bigelow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editing and publishing the papers of Samuel J. Tilden
ⓘ
his multi-volume autobiography Retrospections of an Active Life ⓘ service as Secretary of State of New York ⓘ service as U.S. minister to France during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
France and the Confederate Navy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Molinos the Quietist NERFINISHED ⓘ Retrospections of an Active Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bible That Was Lost and Is Found NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life of Samuel J. Tilden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life of William Cullen Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mystery of Sleep NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tariff Policy of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participantIn |
American Civil War diplomacy
ⓘ
Union diplomatic efforts in France ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Malden-on-Hudson, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
New York Secretary of State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Consul in Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Minister to France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| workedOn | prevention of French recognition of the Confederacy ⓘ |
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: John Bigelow Description of subject: John Bigelow was a 19th-century American lawyer, diplomat, and author who served as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War and later as New York’s Secretary of State.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John P. Bigelow