Ezra Stiles
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Ezra Stiles was an 18th-century American clergyman, scholar, and educator best known for leading Yale College through a period of intellectual and institutional growth during the early years of the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ezra Stiles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5478642 — 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: Ezra Stiles Context triple: [President of Yale University, hasHolder, Ezra Stiles]
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A.
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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B.
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight IV was an influential American theologian, educator, and author who served as the eighth president of Yale College in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Solomon Stoddard
Solomon Stoddard was a prominent 17th- and early 18th-century New England Puritan minister and theologian, best known for his long pastorate in Northampton, Massachusetts and his influence on colonial religious life.
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D.
Timothy Dwight V
Timothy Dwight V was an American academic and Congregational minister who served as president of Yale University from 1886 to 1899.
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E.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
- 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: Ezra Stiles Target entity description: Ezra Stiles was an 18th-century American clergyman, scholar, and educator best known for leading Yale College through a period of intellectual and institutional growth during the early years of the United States.
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A.
Samuel Willard
Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
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B.
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight IV was an influential American theologian, educator, and author who served as the eighth president of Yale College in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Solomon Stoddard
Solomon Stoddard was a prominent 17th- and early 18th-century New England Puritan minister and theologian, best known for his long pastorate in Northampton, Massachusetts and his influence on colonial religious life.
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D.
Timothy Dwight V
Timothy Dwight V was an American academic and Congregational minister who served as president of Yale University from 1886 to 1899.
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E.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college president
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
British America
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | British America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1727-11-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1795-05-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1795 ⓘ |
| familyName | Stiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
history ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Ezra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1746 ⓘ |
| hasPart | correspondence with leading figures of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| influenced | development of higher education in the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading Yale College during the early years of the United States
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promoting intellectual and institutional growth at Yale ⓘ support for scientific and philosophical inquiry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork | Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
clergyman
ⓘ
college president ⓘ educator ⓘ scholar ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| participatedIn | intellectual life of early United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | North Haven, Connecticut Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Haven, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Yale College ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence |
New Haven, Connecticut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1778 ⓘ |
| studied |
Hebrew
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classical languages ⓘ |
| workedAsClergyAt | Second Congregational Church, Newport, Rhode Island 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: Ezra Stiles Description of subject: Ezra Stiles was an 18th-century American clergyman, scholar, and educator best known for leading Yale College through a period of intellectual and institutional growth during the early years of the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.