Lyon Gardiner Tyler
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Lyon Gardiner Tyler was an American historian, educator, and son of U.S. President John Tyler, best known for his long tenure as president of the College of William & Mary and his work on Virginia history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lyon Gardiner Tyler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5210519 — 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.
Target entity: Lyon Gardiner Tyler Context triple: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Lyon Gardiner Tyler]
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Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
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Charles Coffin Little
Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
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Walter H. Tyler
Walter H. Tyler was an American art director and production designer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the biblical epic "Samson and Delilah" (1949).
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D.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland was an American frontiersman and militia colonel best known for his leadership in the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Elijah Churchill
Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, best known as one of the earliest recipients of what would become the Purple Heart for his gallantry in action.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lyon Gardiner Tyler Target entity description: Lyon Gardiner Tyler was an American historian, educator, and son of U.S. President John Tyler, best known for his long tenure as president of the College of William & Mary and his work on Virginia history.
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A.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
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B.
Charles Coffin Little
Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
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C.
Walter H. Tyler
Walter H. Tyler was an American art director and production designer known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the biblical epic "Samson and Delilah" (1949).
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D.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland was an American frontiersman and militia colonel best known for his leadership in the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Elijah Churchill
Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, best known as one of the earliest recipients of what would become the Purple Heart for his gallantry in action.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college president
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1853-08-24 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Charles City County, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
John Tyler (son of Lyon Gardiner Tyler)
NERFINISHED
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Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1935-02-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Richmond, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBySource | College of William & Mary archives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | College of William & Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | College of William & Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1919 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American history
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Virginia history ⓘ |
| fullName | Lyon Gardiner Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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historical writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| mother | Julia Gardiner Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defense of his father John Tyler’s presidential record
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presidency of the College of William & Mary ⓘ writings on Virginia history ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
NERFINISHED
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Letters and Times of the Tylers NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamsburg, the Old Colonial Capital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
college administrator
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educator ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
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President of the College of William & Mary ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence | Williamsburg, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anne Baker Tucker Tyler
NERFINISHED
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Sue Ruffin Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1888 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Lyon Gardiner Tyler Description of subject: Lyon Gardiner Tyler was an American historian, educator, and son of U.S. President John Tyler, best known for his long tenure as president of the College of William & Mary and his work on Virginia history.
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