Thomas Gibbons
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Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Gibbons canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T446336 — 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: Thomas Gibbons Context triple: [Gibbons v. Ogden, plaintiff, Thomas Gibbons]
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
William Gibbons
William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
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C.
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
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D.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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E.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Thomas Gibbons Target entity description: Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
William Gibbons
William Gibbons was an early 17th-century English navigator and explorer associated with Arctic and Northwest Passage voyages.
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C.
Samuel Blodgett
Samuel Blodgett was an American lawyer, financier, and real estate developer known for his role in early U.S. federal projects, including work associated with the First Bank of the United States and the planning of Washington, D.C.
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D.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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E.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
litigant
ⓘ
person ⓘ steamboat operator ⓘ |
| assertedLegalBasis | federal coasting license under U.S. law ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| businessActivity | operating steamboats between New York and New Jersey ⓘ |
| challenged | New York state–granted steamboat monopoly ⓘ |
| contributedTo | expansion of federal authority over interstate commerce ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
interstate commerce on U.S. coastal waters
ⓘ
steamboat transportation ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | interpretation of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution ⓘ |
| hasLegalOutcome | U.S. Supreme Court decision in his favor in Gibbons v. Ogden ⓘ |
| knownFor |
challenging New York’s steamboat monopoly
ⓘ
expanding federal power over interstate commerce through litigation ⓘ |
| legalCase | Gibbons v. Ogden ⓘ |
| legalDoctrineAdvanced | federal supremacy in regulation of interstate commerce ⓘ |
| legalSignificance | central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court commerce clause case ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the successful plaintiff in Gibbons v. Ogden ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gibbons v. Ogden ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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steamboat operator ⓘ |
| operatedInJurisdiction |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of New Jersey
U.S. state of New York ⓘ
surface form:
State of New York
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| opponentInLegalCase | Aaron Ogden ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Hudson River
ⓘ
New York Harbor estuarine system ⓘ
surface form:
New York Harbor
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| roleInLegalCase | plaintiff in Gibbons v. Ogden ⓘ |
| transportMode | steamship ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Thomas Gibbons Description of subject: Thomas Gibbons was a 19th-century American steamboat operator best known as the successful plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which expanded federal power over interstate commerce.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.