Henry G. Blasdel
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Henry G. Blasdel was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Nevada after its admission to the Union.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry G. Blasdel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3969732 — 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: Henry G. Blasdel Context triple: [Governor of Nevada, firstHolder, Henry G. Blasdel]
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A.
William S. Benson
William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
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Thomas U. Walter
Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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D.
Albert D. Blodgett
Albert D. Blodgett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Blodgett surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears to be limited.
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E.
William A. Boring
William A. Boring was an American architect best known for co-designing the main immigration station buildings on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
- 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: Henry G. Blasdel Target entity description: Henry G. Blasdel was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Nevada after its admission to the Union.
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A.
William S. Benson
William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
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B.
Thomas U. Walter
Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
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D.
Albert D. Blodgett
Albert D. Blodgett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Blodgett surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements appears to be limited.
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E.
William A. Boring
William A. Boring was an American architect best known for co-designing the main immigration station buildings on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
governor
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Henry R. Blasdel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1825-01-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1900-07-22 ⓘ |
| election | 1864 Nevada gubernatorial election NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Blasdel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leftOfficeAsGovernorOfNevadaOn | 1871-01-02 ⓘ |
| livedIn |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Goode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInNativeLanguage | Henry Goode Blasdel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first governor of Nevada after statehood ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 1st Governor of Nevada ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Nevada statehood era ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lawrenceburg, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | James W. Nye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodist ⓘ |
| residence |
Carson City, Nevada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oakland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| signatureImage | signature of Henry G. Blasdel ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Jane Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Lewis R. Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEndAsFirstGovernorOfNevada | 1871 ⓘ |
| termStartAsFirstGovernorOfNevada | 1864 ⓘ |
| tookOfficeAsGovernorOfNevadaOn | 1864-12-05 ⓘ |
| wasGovernorOf | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs |
county recorder
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farmer ⓘ steamboat clerk ⓘ storekeeper ⓘ |
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: Henry G. Blasdel Description of subject: Henry G. Blasdel was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Nevada after its admission to the Union.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.