Woody Washam
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Woody Washam is an American local politician who serves as the mayor of Cornelius, a lakeside town in North Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Woody Washam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13317870 — 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: Woody Washam Context triple: [Town of Cornelius, North Carolina, hasMayor, Woody Washam]
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A.
Carey Wilson
Carey Wilson was an American screenwriter and film producer active during Hollywood's early studio era, known for his work on numerous MGM and RKO pictures.
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B.
Greg Reeves
Greg Reeves is an American bass guitarist best known for playing with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, including on their landmark 1970 album "Déjà Vu."
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C.
Nick Searcy
Nick Searcy is an American character actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Chief Deputy Art Mullen on the TV series "Justified."
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D.
Joe Morton
Joe Morton is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including notable performances in projects like "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and the TV series "Scandal."
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E.
Willis Bouchey
Willis Bouchey was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, often appearing in Westerns and dramas.
- 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: Woody Washam Target entity description: Woody Washam is an American local politician who serves as the mayor of Cornelius, a lakeside town in North Carolina.
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A.
Carey Wilson
Carey Wilson was an American screenwriter and film producer active during Hollywood's early studio era, known for his work on numerous MGM and RKO pictures.
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B.
Greg Reeves
Greg Reeves is an American bass guitarist best known for playing with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, including on their landmark 1970 album "Déjà Vu."
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C.
Nick Searcy
Nick Searcy is an American character actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Chief Deputy Art Mullen on the TV series "Justified."
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D.
Joe Morton
Joe Morton is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including notable performances in projects like "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and the TV series "Scandal."
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E.
Willis Bouchey
Willis Bouchey was an American character actor known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, often appearing in Westerns and dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mayor ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
North Carolina
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as mayor of Cornelius, North Carolina ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | local government of Cornelius, North Carolina ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mayor of Cornelius, North Carolina ⓘ |
| residence | Cornelius, North Carolina ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cornelius, North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Woody Washam Description of subject: Woody Washam is an American local politician who serves as the mayor of Cornelius, a lakeside town in North Carolina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.