Walter Livingston
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Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter Livingston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T488315 — 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: Walter Livingston Context triple: [Board of Treasury, notableMember, Walter Livingston]
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A.
Charles L. Tiffany
Charles L. Tiffany was an American jeweler and founder of the luxury jewelry and specialty retailer Tiffany & Co.
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B.
Albert Warner
Albert Warner was an American film executive and one of the four Warner brothers who co-founded the major Hollywood studio Warner Bros.
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C.
Frederic L. Smith
Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
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D.
John J. Raskob
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
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E.
Wallace Miller
Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
- 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: Walter Livingston Target entity description: Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
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A.
Charles L. Tiffany
Charles L. Tiffany was an American jeweler and founder of the luxury jewelry and specialty retailer Tiffany & Co.
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B.
Albert Warner
Albert Warner was an American film executive and one of the four Warner brothers who co-founded the major Hollywood studio Warner Bros.
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C.
Frederic L. Smith
Frederic L. Smith was an American industrialist and early automotive pioneer who played a key role in the creation and development of General Motors.
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D.
John J. Raskob
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
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E.
Wallace Miller
Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Continental Congress delegate ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Livingston family
ⓘ
surface form:
Livingston family of New York
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedIn | law ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Scottish descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Livingston ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ public finance ⓘ |
| genre | public law ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| hasRole |
financial administrator
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ legislator ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Continental Congress
ⓘ
New York State Assembly ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Federalists
ⓘ
surface form:
Federalist Party
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in New York state government
ⓘ
role in early U.S. financial administration ⓘ service as a Continental Congress delegate from New York ⓘ |
| notableWork | financial administration of the early United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary era
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolutionary era politics
|
| placeOfActivity |
U.S. state of New York
ⓘ
surface form:
State of New York
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| positionHeld |
Speaker of the New York State Assembly
ⓘ
clerk of the New York State Assembly ⓘ commissioner of the Board of Treasury ⓘ commissioner of the United States Treasury ⓘ delegate to the Continental Congress ⓘ judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Albany County ⓘ member of the New York State Assembly ⓘ surrogate of Albany County ⓘ |
| residence |
Albany
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, New York
Clermont, New York ⓘ New York ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Albany
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, New York
New York ⓘ |
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: Walter Livingston Description of subject: Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.