James G. Field
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James G. Field was an American politician and Confederate veteran who served as the Populist Party’s vice-presidential nominee in the 1892 U.S. presidential election.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James G. Field canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8029087 — 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: James G. Field Context triple: [1892 United States presidential election, runningMateOfJamesBWeaver, James G. Field]
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Alfred Fitler Moore
Alfred Fitler Moore was a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Samuel Joseph May
Samuel Joseph May was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister and prominent social reformer known for his advocacy of abolition, women's rights, and educational reform.
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C.
James F. Reed
James F. Reed was an Irish-American pioneer and businessman best known as a leading organizer and central figure in the ill-fated Donner Party expedition to California in 1846–47.
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D.
Charles H. Buchanan
Charles H. Buchanan was the Louisville, Kentucky real estate agent whose challenge to a racially discriminatory housing ordinance led to the landmark 1917 U.S. Supreme Court case Buchanan v. Warley.
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E.
James A. Fields
James A. Fields was an African American lawyer, educator, and politician from Virginia who served in the state legislature during the late 19th century and became a prominent advocate for civil rights and public education.
- 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: James G. Field Target entity description: James G. Field was an American politician and Confederate veteran who served as the Populist Party’s vice-presidential nominee in the 1892 U.S. presidential election.
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A.
Alfred Fitler Moore
Alfred Fitler Moore was a Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
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B.
Samuel Joseph May
Samuel Joseph May was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister and prominent social reformer known for his advocacy of abolition, women's rights, and educational reform.
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C.
James F. Reed
James F. Reed was an Irish-American pioneer and businessman best known as a leading organizer and central figure in the ill-fated Donner Party expedition to California in 1846–47.
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D.
Charles H. Buchanan
Charles H. Buchanan was the Louisville, Kentucky real estate agent whose challenge to a racially discriminatory housing ordinance led to the landmark 1917 U.S. Supreme Court case Buchanan v. Warley.
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E.
James A. Fields
James A. Fields was an African American lawyer, educator, and politician from Virginia who served in the state legislature during the late 19th century and became a prominent advocate for civil rights and public education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Confederate veteran ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Confederate States Army
NERFINISHED
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Populist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | 1892 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Field ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
Populist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| name | James G. Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Vice President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Populist Party vice-presidential nominee in 1892 ⓘ |
| notableRole | Populist vice-presidential candidate ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Vice President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participantIn | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology | Populism ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Attorney General of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningMateOf | James B. Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| workLocation | Virginia 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: James G. Field Description of subject: James G. Field was an American politician and Confederate veteran who served as the Populist Party’s vice-presidential nominee in the 1892 U.S. presidential election.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.