Clifton C. Williams Jr.
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Clifton C. Williams Jr. was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and NASA astronaut selected in the 1960s who tragically died in a plane crash before flying in space.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clifton C. Williams | 1 |
| Clifton C. Williams Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13433218 — 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: Clifton C. Williams Jr. Context triple: [NASA Astronaut Group 3, notableMember, Clifton C. Williams Jr.]
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A.
Richmond H. Shreve
Richmond H. Shreve was an American architect best known as a partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed the Empire State Building.
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B.
Edwin G. Booz
Edwin G. Booz was an American businessman and pioneer of the management consulting industry, best known for establishing the firm that became Booz Allen Hamilton.
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C.
Charles Davis Lowe II
Charles Davis Lowe II, better known as Chad Lowe, is an American actor and director recognized for his work in film and television, including a Primetime Emmy-winning role on the series "Life Goes On."
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D.
D. H. Hill
D. H. Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive leadership in major Eastern Theater campaigns.
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E.
Charles W. Moore
Charles W. Moore was an influential American architect and educator known for his playful, postmodern designs and his emphasis on place, history, and human experience in architecture.
- 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: Clifton C. Williams Jr. Target entity description: Clifton C. Williams Jr. was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and NASA astronaut selected in the 1960s who tragically died in a plane crash before flying in space.
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A.
Richmond H. Shreve
Richmond H. Shreve was an American architect best known as a partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed the Empire State Building.
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B.
Edwin G. Booz
Edwin G. Booz was an American businessman and pioneer of the management consulting industry, best known for establishing the firm that became Booz Allen Hamilton.
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C.
Charles Davis Lowe II
Charles Davis Lowe II, better known as Chad Lowe, is an American actor and director recognized for his work in film and television, including a Primetime Emmy-winning role on the series "Life Goes On."
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D.
D. H. Hill
D. H. Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive leadership in major Eastern Theater campaigns.
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E.
Charles W. Moore
Charles W. Moore was an influential American architect and educator known for his playful, postmodern designs and his emphasis on place, history, and human experience in architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA astronaut
ⓘ
United States Marine Corps officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
ⓘ
Navy Astronaut Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Commendation Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Barrancas National Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aircraft crash ⓘ |
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-09-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-10-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Auburn University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Murphy High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| familyName | Williams ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace
ⓘ
military aviation ⓘ |
| fullName | Clifton Curtis Williams Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Clifton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
one daughter
ⓘ
one posthumous child ⓘ |
| hasHonor | name inscribed on Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | experimental test pilot ⓘ |
| killedIn | T-38 jet trainer crash ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | accident ⓘ |
| memberOf | NASA Astronaut Group 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death in T-38 crash en route to see family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a NASA astronaut who died before flying in space ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronaut
ⓘ
test pilot ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mobile, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Tallahassee, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionAsAstronaut | 1963 ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Marine Corps officer service ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Beth Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trainedAt | U.S. Naval Test Pilot School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasAssignedTo | Apollo program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasBackupCrewMemberOf | Gemini 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasPlannedToFlyOn | an early Apollo mission ⓘ |
| workLocation | Johnson Space Center 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: Clifton C. Williams Jr. Description of subject: Clifton C. Williams Jr. was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and NASA astronaut selected in the 1960s who tragically died in a plane crash before flying in space.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clifton C. Williams