James Madison
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James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Madison canonical | 224 |
| James Madison (historical) | 1 |
| James Madison Jr. | 1 |
| James Madison Sr. | 1 |
| James Madison, 4th President of the United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6491 — 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: James Madison Context triple: [Episcopal Church, historicallyInfluentialMembers, James Madison]
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A.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading figure of early American political and intellectual life.
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B.
John Adams
John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who served as the nation’s second president and was a leading advocate for independence and republican government.
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C.
George Washington
George Washington was the first president of the United States and a key leader of the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as the "Father of His Country."
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D.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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E.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
- 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: James Madison Target entity description: James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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A.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading figure of early American political and intellectual life.
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B.
John Adams
John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who served as the nation’s second president and was a leading advocate for independence and republican government.
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C.
George Washington
George Washington was the first president of the United States and a key leader of the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as the "Father of His Country."
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D.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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E.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its conservation land, historic sites, and commuter access to Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: James Madison Description of subject: James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Referenced by (228)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
United States national tour of Hamilton
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. (attributed involvement)
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notableAttendee
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James Madison
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subject surface form:
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
subject surface form:
Albert Gallatin
subject surface form:
Dolley Madison
this entity surface form:
James Madison Jr.
subject surface form:
Council of Revision
subject surface form:
Madison County, Iowa
subject surface form:
Philip Freneau