Zachary Taylor
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States and a career military officer celebrated as a hero of the Mexican–American War.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zachary Taylor canonical | 70 |
| General Zachary Taylor | 1 |
| Zachary Taylor (nickname "Old Rough and Ready") | 1 |
| Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States | 1 |
| Zachary Taylor, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T254669 — 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: Zachary Taylor Context triple: [Virginia, homeOfPresident, Zachary Taylor]
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A.
John Tyler
John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States, known for succeeding William Henry Harrison after his death and for his firm stance on states’ rights.
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B.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
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C.
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
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D.
John C. Tyler
John C. Tyler was a philanthropist and co-founder of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award often regarded as the “Nobel Prize for the environment.”
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E.
Jim Polk
Jim Polk is an American writer and former spouse of acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
- 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: Zachary Taylor Target entity description: Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States and a career military officer celebrated as a hero of the Mexican–American War.
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A.
John Tyler
John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States, known for succeeding William Henry Harrison after his death and for his firm stance on states’ rights.
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B.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, whose ineffective leadership in the years just before the Civil War is widely criticized by historians.
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C.
Zachary Taylor Davis
Zachary Taylor Davis was an American architect best known for designing iconic early 20th-century baseball parks, including Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
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D.
John C. Tyler
John C. Tyler was a philanthropist and co-founder of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, an award often regarded as the “Nobel Prize for the environment.”
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E.
Jim Polk
Jim Polk is an American writer and former spouse of acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Zachary Taylor Description of subject: Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States and a career military officer celebrated as a hero of the Mexican–American War.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Taylor County, Iowa
this entity surface form:
General Zachary Taylor
subject surface form:
Taylor County, Iowa
this entity surface form:
Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States