Horatio Seymour
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Horatio Seymour was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of New York and was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in the 1868 election.
All labels observed (1)
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| Horatio Seymour canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10238768 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Horatio Seymour Context triple: [Frank Blair Jr., runningMateOf, Horatio Seymour]
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A.
S. Joseph Tilden
S. Joseph Tilden is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1970 film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
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B.
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden was an American Democratic politician and reformist governor of New York who won the popular vote but lost the disputed 1876 presidential election, leading to the Compromise of 1877.
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C.
Simeon E. Baldwin
Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Felix Grundy
Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
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E.
James Weaver
James Weaver is a television producer best known for his work on the long-running Canadian teen drama series "Degrassi: The Next Generation."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Horatio Seymour Target entity description: Horatio Seymour was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of New York and was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in the 1868 election.
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A.
S. Joseph Tilden
S. Joseph Tilden is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 1970 film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel "Wuthering Heights."
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B.
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden was an American Democratic politician and reformist governor of New York who won the popular vote but lost the disputed 1876 presidential election, leading to the Compromise of 1877.
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C.
Simeon E. Baldwin
Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Felix Grundy
Felix Grundy was a prominent 19th-century American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. congressman, senator, and Attorney General under President Martin Van Buren.
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E.
James Weaver
James Weaver is a television producer best known for his work on the long-running Canadian teen drama series "Degrassi: The Next Generation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1810-05-31 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Onondaga County, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pompey Hill, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | 1868 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1886-02-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Utica, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Encyclopaedia Britannica ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Geneva College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hobart and William Smith Colleges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Henry Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Horatio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostElectionTo | Ulysses S. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York State Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| mother | Mary Ledyard Forman Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Horatio Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | Democratic National Convention NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedIn | 1868 Democratic National Convention NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Opposition to certain Civil War policies of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | President of the United States ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Radical Reconstruction policies ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American politics ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Northern Democrat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New York
ⓘ
Mayor of Utica, New York ⓘ Speaker of the New York State Assembly ⓘ |
| relative | Horatio Seymour Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalianism ⓘ |
| residence | Utica, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningMate | Francis Preston Blair Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Julia Catherine Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Bleecker Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEnd |
1854-12-31
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1864-12-31 ⓘ |
| termStart |
1853-01-01
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1863-01-01 ⓘ |
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: Horatio Seymour Description of subject: Horatio Seymour was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of New York and was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in the 1868 election.
Referenced by (5)
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