Jonathan Trumbull
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Jonathan Trumbull was an American colonial governor of Connecticut and a close supporter of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Trumbull canonical | 5 |
| Jonathan Trumbull Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6129086 — 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: Jonathan Trumbull Context triple: [Trumbull College, namedAfter, Jonathan Trumbull]
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A.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. was an American statesman from Connecticut who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as the state’s governor in the early years of the republic.
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B.
Josiah Bartlett
Josiah Bartlett was an American physician, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and served as the first governor of New Hampshire.
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C.
Nathaniel Gorham
Nathaniel Gorham was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and played a key role in the early governance of the United States.
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D.
Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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E.
Robert Howe
Robert Howe was a Continental Army general from North Carolina who played a significant role in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: Jonathan Trumbull Target entity description: Jonathan Trumbull was an American colonial governor of Connecticut and a close supporter of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. was an American statesman from Connecticut who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as the state’s governor in the early years of the republic.
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B.
Josiah Bartlett
Josiah Bartlett was an American physician, statesman, and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and served as the first governor of New Hampshire.
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C.
Nathaniel Gorham
Nathaniel Gorham was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and played a key role in the early governance of the United States.
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D.
Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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E.
Robert Howe
Robert Howe was a Continental Army general from North Carolina who played a significant role in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Patriot
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colonial governor ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lebanon, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeAllyOf | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1710-10-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1785-08-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
|
| endTimeOfGovernorship | 1784 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Trumbull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
John Trumbull
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| governed |
Connecticut Colony
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | English descent ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Connecticut General Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Patriot faction ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Brother Jonathan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the only colonial governor to support the American Revolution and remain in office
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close adviser and supporter of George Washington ⓘ supporting the American Revolutionary cause ⓘ |
| notableWork | administration of Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
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politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lebanon, Connecticut Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lebanon, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of the Colony of Connecticut
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Governor of the State of Connecticut ⓘ Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence | Lebanon, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Faith Robinson Trumbull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfGovernorship | 1769 ⓘ |
| supportedBy | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hartford, Connecticut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lebanon, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jonathan Trumbull Description of subject: Jonathan Trumbull was an American colonial governor of Connecticut and a close supporter of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jonathan Trumbull Sr.