Jesse Fell
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Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jesse Fell canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385758 — 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: Jesse Fell Context triple: [Oak Ridge Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Jesse Fell]
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A.
Jesse
Jesse is a figure in the Hebrew Bible best known as the father of King David and the ancestor from whose line the Davidic monarchy and, in Christian tradition, Jesus are said to descend.
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B.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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C.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
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D.
Hunter Brook
Hunter Brook is a small tributary stream that feeds into New York’s Croton River within the Croton River watershed.
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E.
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs is an American billionaire businessman and longtime owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for his influential role in professional hockey and sports venue management.
- 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: Jesse Fell Target entity description: Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
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A.
Jesse
Jesse is a figure in the Hebrew Bible best known as the father of King David and the ancestor from whose line the Davidic monarchy and, in Christian tradition, Jesus are said to descend.
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B.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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C.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
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D.
Hunter Brook
Hunter Brook is a small tributary stream that feeds into New York’s Croton River within the Croton River watershed.
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E.
Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs is an American billionaire businessman and longtime owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, known for his influential role in professional hockey and sports venue management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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human ⓘ land developer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1808-11-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Bucks County, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1887-02-25 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Normal, Illinois ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Dickinson College ⓘ |
| familyName | Fell ⓘ |
| founded |
Bloomington, Illinois
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surface form:
Bloomington Pantagraph
Clinton, Illinois ⓘ Dwight, Illinois ⓘ El Paso, Illinois ⓘ Lexington, Illinois ⓘ Normal, Illinois ⓘ Pontiac, Illinois ⓘ Towanda, Illinois ⓘ |
| givenName | Jesse ⓘ |
| influenced | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for railroads in Illinois
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encouraging Abraham Lincoln to debate Stephen A. Douglas ⓘ founding and developing towns in central Illinois ⓘ helping introduce Abraham Lincoln to Eastern political leaders ⓘ promoting the political career of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ promotion of higher education in Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Bloomington, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Clinton, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Dwight, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of El Paso, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Lexington, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Normal, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Pontiac, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of Towanda, Illinois ⓘ role in the founding and development of other central Illinois communities ⓘ securing the location of Illinois State Normal University in Normal, Illinois ⓘ |
| name | Jesse Fell self-link ⓘ |
| notableFriend | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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land developer ⓘ lawyer ⓘ newspaper publisher ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
clerk of the McLean County Circuit Court
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judge of McLean County, Illinois ⓘ president of the Bloomington School Board ⓘ trustee of Illinois State Normal University ⓘ |
| religion |
Religious Society of Friends
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surface form:
Quakerism
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| residence |
Bloomington, Illinois
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Normal, Illinois ⓘ |
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: Jesse Fell Description of subject: Jesse Fell was a 19th-century American lawyer, land developer, and political figure from Illinois who played a key role in the rise of Abraham Lincoln and the founding of several Midwestern communities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery