Jacob Whitmer
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Jacob Whitmer was one of the early Latter-day Saint figures known as one of the Eight Witnesses who testified to having seen and handled the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob Whitmer canonical | 1 |
| Peter Whitmer Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10112132 — 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: Jacob Whitmer Context triple: [golden plates, witnessListIncludes, Jacob Whitmer]
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A.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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B.
Gilbert Tennent
Gilbert Tennent was an influential Presbyterian minister and revivalist preacher whose fiery sermons helped drive the religious fervor of the First Great Awakening in the American colonies.
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C.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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D.
David Whitmer
David Whitmer was an early Latter Day Saint leader and one of the Three Witnesses whose testimony supported Joseph Smith’s account of translating the Book of Mormon.
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E.
Martin Harris
Martin Harris was an early supporter of Joseph Smith and one of the Three Witnesses who played a key role in the publication and early history of the Book of Mormon.
- 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: Jacob Whitmer Target entity description: Jacob Whitmer was one of the early Latter-day Saint figures known as one of the Eight Witnesses who testified to having seen and handled the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.
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A.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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B.
Gilbert Tennent
Gilbert Tennent was an influential Presbyterian minister and revivalist preacher whose fiery sermons helped drive the religious fervor of the First Great Awakening in the American colonies.
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C.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
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D.
David Whitmer
David Whitmer was an early Latter Day Saint leader and one of the Three Witnesses whose testimony supported Joseph Smith’s account of translating the Book of Mormon.
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E.
Martin Harris
Martin Harris was an early supporter of Joseph Smith and one of the Three Witnesses who played a key role in the publication and early history of the Book of Mormon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latter Day Saint movement figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Book of Mormon
NERFINISHED
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Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) NERFINISHED ⓘ Testimony of the Eight Witnesses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1800-01-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childOf |
Mary Musselman Whitmer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Whitmer Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | early Latter Day Saint movement history ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 1856-04-21 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Whitmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handled | golden plates ⓘ |
| hasRole | Eight Witness ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Whitmer family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Latter Day Saint movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Christian Whitmer
NERFINISHED
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David Whitmer NERFINISHED ⓘ John Whitmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Whitmer Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signedDocument | Testimony of the Eight Witnesses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| testifiedAbout | golden plates ⓘ |
| witnessed |
Book of Mormon plates
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
golden plates 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: Jacob Whitmer Description of subject: Jacob Whitmer was one of the early Latter-day Saint figures known as one of the Eight Witnesses who testified to having seen and handled the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peter Whitmer Jr.