Cortlandt Parker
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Cortlandt Parker was an American lawyer and public figure from New Jersey, best known for his role in establishing influential institutions such as The Star-Ledger newspaper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cortlandt Parker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9637163 — 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: Cortlandt Parker Context triple: [The Star-Ledger, foundedBy, Cortlandt Parker]
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A.
Cortlandt Skinner
Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Palmer Cortlandt
Palmer Cortlandt is a wealthy, manipulative business tycoon and longtime central character on the soap opera "All My Children."
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C.
Jonathan Hasbrouck
Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
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D.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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E.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- 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: Cortlandt Parker Target entity description: Cortlandt Parker was an American lawyer and public figure from New Jersey, best known for his role in establishing influential institutions such as The Star-Ledger newspaper.
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A.
Cortlandt Skinner
Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Palmer Cortlandt
Palmer Cortlandt is a wealthy, manipulative business tycoon and longtime central character on the soap opera "All My Children."
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C.
Jonathan Hasbrouck
Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
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D.
Abraham Van Brunt
Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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E.
Stephen Van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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human ⓘ public figure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
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public service ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Cortlandt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Bar Association
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Jersey bar ⓘ |
| notableWork |
legal practice in New Jersey
ⓘ
public service in New Jersey ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newark, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Attorney General of New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New Jersey
NERFINISHED
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Newark, New Jersey 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: Cortlandt Parker Description of subject: Cortlandt Parker was an American lawyer and public figure from New Jersey, best known for his role in establishing influential institutions such as The Star-Ledger newspaper.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.