William Alexander Percy
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William Alexander Percy was an American lawyer, planter, and poet from Mississippi, best known for his memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" and for mentoring his cousin, the novelist Walker Percy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Alexander Percy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13561361 — 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: William Alexander Percy Context triple: [Walker Percy, relative, William Alexander Percy]
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A.
Edward Saunders Cheatham
Edward Saunders Cheatham was a 19th-century American politician from Tennessee after whom Cheatham County was named.
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B.
Ben Faulkner
Ben Faulkner is an actor best known for his role in the psychological thriller film "Silent Fall."
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C.
Tarrant Hinton
Tarrant Hinton is a small rural village in Dorset, England, best known for hosting the annual Great Dorset Steam Fair.
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D.
Wilson Lumpkin
Wilson Lumpkin was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman, known for his role in the state's early development and politics.
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E.
Samuel Ashe
Samuel Ashe was an American Revolutionary-era politician and governor of North Carolina after whom the city of Asheville was named.
- 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: William Alexander Percy Target entity description: William Alexander Percy was an American lawyer, planter, and poet from Mississippi, best known for his memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" and for mentoring his cousin, the novelist Walker Percy.
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A.
Edward Saunders Cheatham
Edward Saunders Cheatham was a 19th-century American politician from Tennessee after whom Cheatham County was named.
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B.
Ben Faulkner
Ben Faulkner is an actor best known for his role in the psychological thriller film "Silent Fall."
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C.
Tarrant Hinton
Tarrant Hinton is a small rural village in Dorset, England, best known for hosting the annual Great Dorset Steam Fair.
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D.
Wilson Lumpkin
Wilson Lumpkin was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman, known for his role in the state's early development and politics.
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E.
Samuel Ashe
Samuel Ashe was an American Revolutionary-era politician and governor of North Carolina after whom the city of Asheville was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ memoir ⓘ memoirist ⓘ planter ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mississippi Delta region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | William Alexander Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| cousin | Walker Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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University of the South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| influenced |
Southern writers
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Walker Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Percy family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Walker Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| movement | Southern literature ⓘ |
| name | William Alexander Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Southern agrarian views
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leadership in Greenville, Mississippi ⓘ response to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lanterns on the Levee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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lawyer ⓘ planter ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Greenville, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Greenville, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | community leader in Greenville, Mississippi ⓘ |
| relative | Walker Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalianism ⓘ |
| residence | Greenville, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | homosexuality ⓘ |
| stateOfOrigin | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
essays
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poetry collections ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Mississippi Delta
NERFINISHED
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Southern society NERFINISHED ⓘ race relations in the American South ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: William Alexander Percy Description of subject: William Alexander Percy was an American lawyer, planter, and poet from Mississippi, best known for his memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" and for mentoring his cousin, the novelist Walker Percy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.