Samuel Osgood
E93115
Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Osgood canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T488314 — 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: Samuel Osgood Context triple: [Board of Treasury, notableMember, Samuel Osgood]
-
A.
James Warren Sever
James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
-
B.
FitzWilliam Sargent
FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
-
C.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
-
D.
James Caldwell
James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
-
E.
Emile Sherman
Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for co-producing the Academy Award–winning film "The King’s Speech" and co-founding the production company See-Saw Films.
- 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: Samuel Osgood Target entity description: Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
-
A.
James Warren Sever
James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
-
B.
FitzWilliam Sargent
FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
-
C.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
-
D.
James Caldwell
James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
-
E.
Emile Sherman
Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for co-producing the Academy Award–winning film "The King’s Speech" and co-founding the production company See-Saw Films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
Revolutionary War officer ⓘ human ⓘ merchant ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1747-02-03 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Andover
ⓘ
surface form:
Andover, Massachusetts
Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ
surface form:
Andover, Province of Massachusetts Bay
|
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Britain
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1813-08-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| knownFor |
reorganizing the United States Post Office Department
ⓘ
service in the Continental Congress ⓘ service in the early federal government of the United States ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Continental Congress
ⓘ
Massachusetts House of Representatives ⓘ New York State Assembly ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| name | Samuel Osgood self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ postmaster ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1791-08-12 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1789-09-26 ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | supporter of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Postmaster General of the United States
ⓘ
member of the Continental Congress ⓘ member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ⓘ member of the New York State Assembly ⓘ president of the New York City Board of Aldermen ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ebenezer Hazard ⓘ |
| relative |
Benjamin Franklin
ⓘ
surface form:
Benjamin Franklin (father-in-law by second marriage)
|
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence |
Andover
ⓘ
surface form:
Andover, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ New York City, New York, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York
|
| servedIn |
Massachusetts Bay Colony militia
ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts militia
|
| spouse |
Maria Bowne Franklin
ⓘ
Mary Marston ⓘ |
| successor | Timothy Pickering ⓘ |
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: Samuel Osgood Description of subject: Samuel Osgood was an American merchant, Revolutionary War officer, and statesman who became the first Postmaster General of the United States under the Constitution.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.