Jacob D. Cox
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Jacob D. Cox was an American Civil War general and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and later as a reform-minded governor of Ohio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob D. Cox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7880992 — 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: Jacob D. Cox Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, officeHolder, Jacob D. Cox]
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A.
Edward Cox
Edward Cox is a fictional character from the 1963 British comedy film "The Punch and Judy Man."
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B.
Jacob Cook
Jacob Cook was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the community of Cooksville was named.
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C.
Joel Cox
Joel Cox is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Clint Eastwood on numerous acclaimed movies.
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D.
Ben Covington
Ben Covington is a central love interest and college student in the television drama "Felicity," known for his complex, on-and-off relationship with the title character.
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E.
Jim Coates
Jim Coates is the husband of Katie Coates, known primarily in relation to her.
- 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: Jacob D. Cox Target entity description: Jacob D. Cox was an American Civil War general and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and later as a reform-minded governor of Ohio.
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A.
Edward Cox
Edward Cox is a fictional character from the 1963 British comedy film "The Punch and Judy Man."
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B.
Jacob Cook
Jacob Cook was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the community of Cooksville was named.
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C.
Joel Cox
Joel Cox is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Clint Eastwood on numerous acclaimed movies.
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D.
Ben Covington
Ben Covington is a central love interest and college student in the television drama "Felicity," known for his complex, on-and-off relationship with the title character.
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E.
Jim Coates
Jim Coates is the husband of Katie Coates, known primarily in relation to her.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Oberlin College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
legal education
ⓘ
military history ⓘ political reform ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| middleName | Dolson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | major general ⓘ |
| movement |
Reconstruction-era moderate Republicanism
ⓘ
civil service reform ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of civil service reform
ⓘ
service as Governor of Ohio ⓘ service as U.S. Secretary of the Interior ⓘ service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Atlanta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ The March to the Sea—Franklin and Nashville NERFINISHED ⓘ The Second Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| officeContested | United States Senate seat from Ohio ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lower Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Gloucester
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Brigadier General in the Union Army
ⓘ
Dean of the Cincinnati Law School ⓘ Governor of Ohio ⓘ Major General in the Union Army ⓘ President of the University of Cincinnati ⓘ United States Secretary of the Interior NERFINISHED ⓘ member of the Ohio Senate ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| residence |
Cincinnati
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleveland NERFINISHED ⓘ Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Jacob D. Cox Description of subject: Jacob D. Cox was an American Civil War general and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and later as a reform-minded governor of Ohio.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.