Richard Varick
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Richard Varick was an early American lawyer, politician, and Revolutionary War officer who served as mayor of New York City in the late 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Varick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8168157 — 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: Richard Varick Context triple: [Varick Street, namedAfter, Richard Varick]
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
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C.
Herbert Horne
Herbert Horne was a British designer, typographer, art historian, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement who helped shape late 19th-century artistic and craft reform in England.
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D.
William Lanteau
William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
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E.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
- 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: Richard Varick Target entity description: Richard Varick was an early American lawyer, politician, and Revolutionary War officer who served as mayor of New York City in the late 18th century.
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
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C.
Herbert Horne
Herbert Horne was a British designer, typographer, art historian, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement who helped shape late 19th-century artistic and craft reform in England.
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D.
William Lanteau
William Lanteau was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a notable appearance in the drama "On Golden Pond."
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E.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mayor ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appliesToPosition | Mayor of New York City ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Hackensack, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1753-03-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1831-07-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | King's College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1801 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Varick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalEducation | read law in New York ⓘ |
| memberOf | Federalist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableFor |
organizing and copying George Washington’s papers after the Revolutionary War
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serving as mayor of New York City in the late 18th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | Varick Transcripts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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mayor ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | post-war organization of Continental Army records ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hackensack, Province of New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Jersey City, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mayor of New York City
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New York State Attorney General NERFINISHED ⓘ Recorder of New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Speaker of the New York State Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ clerk to the Continental Congress ⓘ member of the New York State Assembly ⓘ |
| precededBy | James Duane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Dutch Reformed Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Benedict Arnold
NERFINISHED
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George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1789 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Edward Livingston 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: Richard Varick Description of subject: Richard Varick was an early American lawyer, politician, and Revolutionary War officer who served as mayor of New York City in the late 18th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.