Roger Griswold
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Roger Griswold was an American Federalist politician and jurist who served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut and later as the state's governor in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Griswold canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10662250 — 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: Roger Griswold Context triple: [Griswold, hasNotableBearer, Roger Griswold]
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A.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
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B.
Christian Van Dyke
Christian Van Dyke is one of the children of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
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C.
Philip Holbrook
Philip Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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D.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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E.
Oscar W. Griswold
Oscar W. Griswold was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theater, particularly in the liberation of the Philippines.
- 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: Roger Griswold Target entity description: Roger Griswold was an American Federalist politician and jurist who served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut and later as the state's governor in the early 19th century.
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A.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
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B.
Christian Van Dyke
Christian Van Dyke is one of the children of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
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C.
Philip Holbrook
Philip Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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D.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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E.
Oscar W. Griswold
Oscar W. Griswold was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theater, particularly in the liberation of the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of Connecticut
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human ⓘ jurist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| admittedToTheBar | 1783 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Norwich, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| congressionalServiceEnd | 1805 ⓘ |
| congressionalServiceStart | 1795 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1762-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1812-10-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electedToUSHouseOfRepresentatives | 1794 ⓘ |
| father | Roger Griswold Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduatedIn | 1780 ⓘ |
| grandfather | Matthew Griswold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Federalist opposition to Jeffersonian Republicans ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Federalist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Fanny Rogers Griswold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involved in a physical altercation with Matthew Lyon on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1798 ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Norwich, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Norwich, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Connecticut
ⓘ
Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut ⓘ Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Norwich, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededInOfficeAsGovernorBy | John Treadwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Matthew Griswold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAsGovernorEnd | 1812 ⓘ |
| servedAsGovernorStart | 1811 ⓘ |
| servedAsLieutenantGovernorEnd | 1811 ⓘ |
| servedAsLieutenantGovernorStart | 1809 ⓘ |
| servedInCongressDuring |
Eighth United States Congress
NERFINISHED
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Fifth United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourth United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Seventh United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ Sixth United States Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Fanny Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied | law ⓘ |
| succeededInOfficeAsGovernorBy | John Cotton Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Roger Griswold Description of subject: Roger Griswold was an American Federalist politician and jurist who served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut and later as the state's governor in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Griswold, Connecticut
subject surface form:
John Cotton Smith