Phil Scott
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Phil Scott is an American Republican politician and businessman who has served as the governor of Vermont, known for his moderate views and bipartisan approach to governance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phil Scott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6906731 — 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: Phil Scott Context triple: [Governor of Vermont, officeHoldersInclude, Phil Scott]
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A.
Justin Walker
Justin Walker is an American actor best known for his role as Christian Stovitz in the 1995 teen comedy film "Clueless."
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B.
Justin Walker
Justin Walker is a central character on the television drama "Brothers & Sisters," known as the youngest Walker sibling and a veteran struggling with addiction and post-war readjustment.
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C.
Chris Sununu
Chris Sununu is an American Republican politician and businessman who has served as the governor of New Hampshire.
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D.
William L. Dayton
William L. Dayton was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat who served as a U.S. senator from New Jersey and later as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War.
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E.
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley is a conservative American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri.
- 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: Phil Scott Target entity description: Phil Scott is an American Republican politician and businessman who has served as the governor of Vermont, known for his moderate views and bipartisan approach to governance.
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A.
Justin Walker
Justin Walker is an American actor best known for his role as Christian Stovitz in the 1995 teen comedy film "Clueless."
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B.
Justin Walker
Justin Walker is a central character on the television drama "Brothers & Sisters," known as the youngest Walker sibling and a veteran struggling with addiction and post-war readjustment.
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C.
Chris Sununu
Chris Sununu is an American Republican politician and businessman who has served as the governor of New Hampshire.
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D.
William L. Dayton
William L. Dayton was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat who served as a U.S. senator from New Jersey and later as U.S. minister to France during the Civil War.
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E.
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley is a conservative American politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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politician ⓘ |
| businessActivity | construction business ownership in Vermont ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| electedIn |
2016 Vermont gubernatorial election
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2018 Vermont gubernatorial election ⓘ 2020 Vermont gubernatorial election ⓘ 2022 Vermont gubernatorial election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | State of Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Philip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
bipartisan governance
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moderate Republicanism ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bipartisan approach to governance
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high approval ratings as governor of Vermont ⓘ moderate political views ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | Vermont Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
publicly opposed Donald Trump in 2016 presidential election
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signed climate and clean energy legislation as governor of Vermont ⓘ signed gun control legislation in Vermont in 2018 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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politician ⓘ |
| officeContested |
Governor of Vermont
ⓘ
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Vermont state government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
fiscally conservative politician
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socially moderate Republican ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Vermont
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Lieutenant Governor of Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of the Vermont Senate ⓘ |
| precededBy | Peter Shumlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stanceOnIssue |
support for abortion rights
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support for climate change mitigation policies ⓘ support for gun control measures ⓘ support for same-sex marriage ⓘ |
| startTime | 2017-01-05 ⓘ |
| startTimeQualifier | start of term as Governor of Vermont ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Vermont 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: Phil Scott Description of subject: Phil Scott is an American Republican politician and businessman who has served as the governor of Vermont, known for his moderate views and bipartisan approach to governance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.