Charles Edison
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Charles Edison was an American politician and businessman who served as the 42nd governor of New Jersey and was the son of inventor Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Edison canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9513196 — 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: Charles Edison Context triple: [Mina Miller Edison, child, Charles Edison]
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A.
William Leslie Edison
William Leslie Edison was one of the sons of inventor Thomas Edison, belonging to the Edison family of the famed American inventor.
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B.
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
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C.
Edison
"Edison" is a 2005 crime thriller film (also known as "Edison Force") about corruption in a city's elite police unit, featuring an ensemble cast including Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J, and Justin Timberlake.
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D.
Edison
Edison is a large, diverse township in central New Jersey known for its suburban communities, major transportation links, and historical association with inventor Thomas Edison.
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E.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf best known for inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
- 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: Charles Edison Target entity description: Charles Edison was an American politician and businessman who served as the 42nd governor of New Jersey and was the son of inventor Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.
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A.
William Leslie Edison
William Leslie Edison was one of the sons of inventor Thomas Edison, belonging to the Edison family of the famed American inventor.
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B.
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
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C.
Edison
"Edison" is a 2005 crime thriller film (also known as "Edison Force") about corruption in a city's elite police unit, featuring an ensemble cast including Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J, and Justin Timberlake.
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D.
Edison
Edison is a large, diverse township in central New Jersey known for its suburban communities, major transportation links, and historical association with inventor Thomas Edison.
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E.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf best known for inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Franklin D. Roosevelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1890-08-03 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | West Orange, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Thomas Alva Edison Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1969-07-31 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hotchkiss School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Edison Industries
NERFINISHED
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Thomas A. Edison, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
term as Governor of New Jersey 1944
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term as United States Secretary of the Navy 1940 ⓘ |
| familyName | Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
industrial management
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public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy (civilian leadership) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mina Miller Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of inventor Thomas Edison
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serving as United States Secretary of the Navy before and during the early period of World War II ⓘ serving as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Mina Miller Edison
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
administration as Governor of New Jersey during World War II
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leadership of the United States Navy at the outset of World War II ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 42nd Governor of New Jersey ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New Jersey
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United States Secretary of the Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Newark, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ West Orange, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Navy Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Charles Edison Jr. (half-sibling category – children of Thomas Edison)
NERFINISHED
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Madeleine Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Miller Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Carolyn Hawkins Edison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
term as Governor of New Jersey 1941
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term as United States Secretary of the Navy 1939 ⓘ |
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: Charles Edison Description of subject: Charles Edison was an American politician and businessman who served as the 42nd governor of New Jersey and was the son of inventor Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.