Alexander Clinton
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Alexander Clinton was a member of the prominent Clinton family of colonial New York, known primarily as a son of Irish-born landowner and militia officer Charles Clinton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Clinton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11300982 — 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: Alexander Clinton Context triple: [Charles Clinton, child, Alexander Clinton]
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A.
George Clinton
George Clinton was an American Founding Father, longtime governor of New York, and one of the first vice presidents of the United States, serving under both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
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B.
George Clinton
George Clinton is an American musician, bandleader, and producer best known as the architect of the influential funk collectives Parliament and Funkadelic, whose innovative sound has shaped generations of hip-hop, R&B, and electronic artists.
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C.
John Schuyler
John Schuyler was a colonial American military officer from New York who led provincial forces against the French and their Indigenous allies during King William’s War in the late 17th century.
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D.
John Schuyler Jr.
John Schuyler Jr. was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of colonial New York, known primarily as the son of Revolutionary War general and statesman Philip Schuyler.
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E.
James Alexander Hamilton
James Alexander Hamilton was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the third son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who served as acting U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Jackson.
- 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: Alexander Clinton Target entity description: Alexander Clinton was a member of the prominent Clinton family of colonial New York, known primarily as a son of Irish-born landowner and militia officer Charles Clinton.
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A.
George Clinton
George Clinton was an American Founding Father, longtime governor of New York, and one of the first vice presidents of the United States, serving under both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
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B.
George Clinton
George Clinton is an American musician, bandleader, and producer best known as the architect of the influential funk collectives Parliament and Funkadelic, whose innovative sound has shaped generations of hip-hop, R&B, and electronic artists.
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C.
John Schuyler
John Schuyler was a colonial American military officer from New York who led provincial forces against the French and their Indigenous allies during King William’s War in the late 17th century.
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D.
John Schuyler Jr.
John Schuyler Jr. was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of colonial New York, known primarily as the son of Revolutionary War general and statesman Philip Schuyler.
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E.
James Alexander Hamilton
James Alexander Hamilton was an American lawyer, diplomat, and the third son of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who served as acting U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
Province of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Irish
ⓘ
Irish descent ⓘ |
| familyName |
Clinton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alexander
ⓘ
Charles ⓘ |
| hasFather | Charles Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Charles Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Clinton family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clinton family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Clinton family of colonial New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
militia officer ⓘ |
| partOf | colonial New York society ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Province of New York 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: Alexander Clinton Description of subject: Alexander Clinton was a member of the prominent Clinton family of colonial New York, known primarily as a son of Irish-born landowner and militia officer Charles Clinton.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.