Clement C. Clay Sr.
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Clement C. Clay Sr. was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama and later as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clement C. Clay Sr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7958779 — 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: Clement C. Clay Sr. Context triple: [William Rufus King, succeededInSenateBy, Clement C. Clay Sr.]
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A.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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B.
Henry T. Rainey
Henry T. Rainey was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the early New Deal era under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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D.
Otho Holland Williams
Otho Holland Williams was an American Revolutionary War officer from Maryland who rose to prominence as a respected Continental Army commander and later served in various civic and military roles in the early United States.
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E.
J. Franklin Fort
J. Franklin Fort was an American Republican politician and former Governor of New Jersey who later served in national advisory roles during the World War I era.
- 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: Clement C. Clay Sr. Target entity description: Clement C. Clay Sr. was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama and later as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
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A.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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B.
Henry T. Rainey
Henry T. Rainey was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the early New Deal era under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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D.
Otho Holland Williams
Otho Holland Williams was an American Revolutionary War officer from Maryland who rose to prominence as a respected Continental Army commander and later served in various civic and military roles in the early United States.
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E.
J. Franklin Fort
J. Franklin Fort was an American Republican politician and former Governor of New Jersey who later served in national advisory roles during the World War I era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1789-12-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1866-09-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Litchfield Law School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| endTime (Governor of Alabama) | 1837 ⓘ |
| endTime (U.S. Senate service) | 1841 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Clement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredIn | Clement C. Clay Bridge (named for him and/or his son) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdictionGoverned | State of Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Alabama House of Representatives
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alabama Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ Democratic Party ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
United States Senate ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Service as Governor of Alabama
ⓘ
Service as United States Senator from Alabama ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| partyAffiliation | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Halifax County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Huntsville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Alabama
ⓘ
United States Senator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Huntsville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represented | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Huntsville, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Susanna Claiborne Withers Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime (Governor of Alabama) | 1835 ⓘ |
| startTime (U.S. Senate service) | 1837 ⓘ |
| stateOfUSSenate | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Alabama 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: Clement C. Clay Sr. Description of subject: Clement C. Clay Sr. was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama and later as a Confederate senator during the Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.