Benjamin C. Howard
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Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Chew Howard | 7 |
| Benjamin C. Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T125468 — 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.
Target entity: Benjamin C. Howard Context triple: [Howard Reports, compiledBy, Benjamin C. Howard]
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William F. Raynolds
William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
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John D. Newsome
John D. Newsome was an American administrator who oversaw the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program that employed writers to document U.S. history and culture during the Great Depression.
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Robert W. Hunt
Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
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D.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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Samuel Francis Du Pont
Samuel Francis Du Pont was a 19th-century U.S. Navy rear admiral noted for his service in the Mexican–American and Civil Wars and for his influential role in modernizing the American naval fleet.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Benjamin C. Howard Target entity description: Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
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A.
William F. Raynolds
William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
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B.
John D. Newsome
John D. Newsome was an American administrator who oversaw the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program that employed writers to document U.S. history and culture during the Great Depression.
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C.
Robert W. Hunt
Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
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D.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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E.
Samuel Francis Du Pont
Samuel Francis Du Pont was a 19th-century U.S. Navy rear admiral noted for his service in the Mexican–American and Civil Wars and for his influential role in modernizing the American naval fleet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American lawyer
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Reporter of Decisions ⓘ court reporter ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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legal reporting ⓘ |
| genre | law reports ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Howard's U.S. Supreme Court Reports
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surface form:
United States Supreme Court Reports, Howard series
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| hasRole |
compiler of Supreme Court decisions
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editor of official law reports ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
compiling official reports of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
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publishing the Howard Reports ⓘ |
| notableWork | Howard Reports ⓘ |
| occupation |
Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
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court reporter ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Reports reporters ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
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surface form:
Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court
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| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Benjamin C. Howard Description of subject: Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
Referenced by (9)
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